noun
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The scaly yellowfish, Labeobarbus natalensis.
adjective
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Covered or abounding with scales.
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a scaly fish a scaly stem
synonyms
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Composed of scales lying over each other.
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a scaly bulb
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Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.
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Low, mean.
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a scaly fellow
Examples of scaly in a Sentence
The scaly ramenta which occur in abundance on the leaf-stalk bases of fossil Cycads constitute another fern-character surviving in Mesozoic Cycadales.
Tongue scaly, feebly nicked in front.
Though generally nearly smooth, or but slightly scaly, the surface of some hairs is imbricated; that is to say, shows projecting scale-like processes, as in some bats, while in the twotoed sloth (Choloepus) they are longitudinally grooved or fluted.
The scaly fish include members of the carp and perch kind.
There is also a scaly ant-eater and various species of pangolins, of arboreal habit, which live on ants.
I was covered with a scaly skin which was a golden color.
We may mention also graphiticschists containing dark scaly graphite (often altered forms of carbonaceous shales), and haematite-schists which may represent beds of ironstone.
A, Peduncle; b, scaly bud; the more internal part of B, leaf bearing marginal ovule.
Finally, this region affords us representatives of the order Edentata, in the shape of several species of Manis, or scaly ant-eater.
The symptoms are bald, scaly patches with broken hairs on the patch.
The young rat, pictured here, differs from mice in having a very thick, scaly tail.
Crystals are prismatic, acicular or scaly in habit; they have a perfect cleavage parallel to the brachypinacoid (M in the figure).
The female lays her eggs beneath the scaly covering, from which hatch out little active six-legged larvae, which wander about and soon begin to form a new scale.
Roscoelite is a mica in which the aluminium is largely replaced by vanadium (V203, 30%); it occurs as brownish-green scaly aggregates, intimately associated with gold in California, Colorado and Western Australia.
The tree swift, or scaly lizard, is also an inhabitant of western and south-western Texas.
In the beavers or Castoridae these bones are in close contact at their lower ends, the tail is depressed, expanded and scaly, and the habits are aquatic. Beavers have webbed hind-feet, and the claw of the second hind-toe double.
Of animals still found may be mentioned baboons and monkeys, the leopard, red lynx (Felis caracal), spotted hyena, aard wolf, wild cat, long-eared fox, jackals of various kinds, the dassie or rock rabbit, the scaly anteater, the ant bear (aardvaark), the mongoose and the spring haas, a rodent of the jerboa family.
The tongue is generally beset with more or less scaly or velvety papillae and has always a well-marked posterior margin, while the anterior portion may or may not be more or less retractile into the posterior part.
In Atherura fasciculata of the Malay Peninsula the spines are flattened, and the tails long and scaly, with a tuft of compressed bristles.
The former is a dry scaly sore, and the latter a running, open boil.
The name Retinospora, therefore, does not stand for a true genus, but denotes persistent young forms of Juniperus, Thuja, Cupressus, &c., in which the small scaly leaves of ordinary species are replaced by the slender, needle-like leaves, which stand out more or less at right angles from the branches.
Hair having a property of mutual cohesion or " felting," which depends upon a roughened scaly surface and a tendency to curl, as in domestic sheep, is called " wool."
These tufts or groups likewise display an orderly and definite grouping in different mammals, which suggests the origin of such groups from the existence in primitive mammals of a scaly coat comparable to that of reptiles, and indeed directly inherited therefrom.
The majority of Mesozoic stems agree in external appearance with those of recent species of Encephalartos, Macrozamia, and some other genera; the trunk is encased in a mass of persistent petiole-bases separated from one another by a dense felt or packing of scaly ramenta.
It consists of very fine scaly kaolin, larger, shining plates of white mica, grains of quartz and particles of semi-decomposed felspar, tourmaline, zircon and other minerals, which originally formed part of the granite.
He was so ungainly, so pimply about the head, so scaly about the legs, yet so serene, so unspeakably satisfied!
Skin changes What is going on in the skin of people with psoriasis to produce the red scaly plaques?
Although Pekes are not usually candidates for a condition commonly called Sebaceous Adenitis (S.A.), this disease does cause scaly sores and hair loss.
Eczema-A superficial type of inflammation of the skin that may be very itchy and weeping in the early stages; later, the affected skin becomes crusted, scaly, and thick.
It causes scaly, swollen blisters or a rash that looks like black dots.
The tail is laterally compressed, nearly naked, and scaly.
But when cancer attacks the inlet of the stomach, the tumour is of the scaly epitheliomatous variety.
They are succeeded by succulent fruits, which are exserted, and frequently scaly or spiny, in which respects this genus differs both from Melocactus and Mammillaria, which have the fruits immersed and smooth.
Although sometimes short, the tail is generally long, sparsely haired and scaly.
The subject is St Roch, the patron saint of lepers, and the colouring of the scaly skin of the leper in the forefront of the picture is generally regarded as one of the master's most striking effects.
In art he is depicted as a vigorous old man with long hair and beard, his body terminating in a scaly tail, his breast covered with shells and seaweed.
Its surface is clothed with filamentous or scaly hairs (paleae), which protect the growing point; and adventitious roots spring from it.
Serpentine, which may be fibrous or scaly, is a.
Synopsis A pangolin is an obscure species of scaly anteater.
Unlike scalp ringworm, the patches of hair loss are not scaly or inflamed.
They could put you in mind of a can of sardines, if you thought sardines were huge and scaly.
Patients develop a widespread, slightly scaly rash which can look like either eczema or psoriasis.
This can appear as faint pale dry areas, sometimes scaly, on the cheeks of children.
If the scalp is very scaly then a shampoo containing coal tar or salicylic acid may help to remove it.
Areas of skin that become scaly, itchy, tender or red, or areas that ooze, bleed or become crusty.
Within moments, the gloom which surrounded everyone was filled with scaly wings, clawing talons, biting fangs, and foul stenches.
Among edentata the ant-bear, scaly ant-eater and porcupine are plentiful.
Jupiter-Baal was represented locally as a beardless god in long scaly' drapery, holding a whip in his right hand and lightning and ears of corn in his left.
Our modern diminutive " horsetails " with scaly leaves were represented in the Carboniferous period by gigantic calamites, often with a diameter of I to 2 ft.
This latter animal is closely related to one which Cuvier termed Pangolin gigantesque, and had he restored it according to his " law of correlation " he would have pictured a giant " scaly anteater," a type as wide as the poles from the actual form of Chalicotherium, which in body, limbs and teeth is a modified ungulate herbivore, related remotely to the tapirs.