scaled

2 4.9

Covered with small overlapping hard plates like fish or armor

adjective
/skeɪld/

: escamoso

The warrior wore a scaled breastplate for protection in battle.

Examples

A later passage mentions some of the men bearing tall Shields, scaled armor, torques and bracelets.
The fish had a beautiful, scaled body that glimmered in the sunlight.
This scaled linothorax, for instance, can be seen in arts around the Greek world, including on the most famous mosaic of Alexander the Great.
Many reptiles are scaled, allowing them to blend into their environments.

Synonyms

scaly

vsscaled

16 3.3

A surface with small, flat pieces like fish or reptile skin

is broader and used for any plated surface including natural and man made coverings

scaley

vsscaled

1 4.1

Having a body covered with small thin plates like fish or reptiles

is similar but also applies to artificial plated coverings as well as natural ones

Antonyms

scaleless

1 7.1

An animal's skin with no hard plates

Compounds

silver-scaled

1 6.7

Having silver scales on the body

How Scaly

scaled

2 4.9

scalelike

Specialized

1 7.4

scaleless

1 7.1

Surface Forms

scaled positive

Morphology

scaled = scale (transparent) = scale + ed

The adjective is clearly formed from 'scale' + '-ed', meaning 'having or covered with scales', which is directly inferable by learners.

Etymology

Scaled comes from the noun scale, which means a small hard 'plate' like the ones on a fish or reptile, and long ago armour makers used many small plates in the same way. So scaled means 'covered with small plates or scales', whether natural (like a fish) or made (like armour).