scaly

Meanings

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).

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

esquamulose, nonscaly, scaleless, unscaly

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