scaly
IPA: skˈeɪɫi
noun
- (South Africa) The scaly yellowfish (Labeobarbus natalensis).
adjective
- Covered or abounding with scales.
- Composed of scales lying over each other.
- Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.
- (dated, vulgar or South Africa) low, mean.
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Examples of "scaly" in Sentences
- The bark is flaky or scaly, brown.
- The bark is thick, rough and scaly.
- It is whitish and scaly and brittle.
- It becomes rough and scaly with age.
- The cap is scaly and has fibrillose.
- The tail is scaly and practically naked.
- The bark is irregularly furrowed and scaly.
- This polypody anchors with a scaly rhizome.
- There was a scaly hump on the monsters shoulder.
- Due to the arid climate, it is populated mainly by members of the 'scaly' kith.
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