scaly

Plural: scalies

Adjective Satellite

• rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf
• having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles

Adj

• Covered or abounding with scales.
• Composed of scales lying over each other.
• Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.
• low, mean.

Noun

• The scaly yellowfish (Labeobarbus natalensis).

Adjective

• Covered with or resembling scales; flaking off in layers.

Examples

• a scaly bulb
• a scaly fellow
• a scaly fish  a scaly stem
• His Scrabble rack was SCALY with consonants, making it hard to find vowels.

Synonyms

lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scaled, scaley, scurfy, scaly, scarious, squamate, squamated, squamiferous, squamoid, squamous, squamulose, squarrose

Antonyms

esquamulose, nonscaly, scaleless, unscaly

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