Thesaurus: scaly

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1. a. Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish.
2. a. Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.
3. a. Mean; low; as, a scaly fellow.
4. a. Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem.
5. adj. rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf
6. adj. having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles
7. Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb;covered with scales; as, a scaly stem. Scaly ant-eater (Zoöl.), thepangolin.
8. j:100 s. having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles