scaly
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3.3
- adjective
- /ˈskeɪli/
- The lizard's scaly skin glimmered in the sunlight as it basked on the warm rock.
- scaly-foot snail
- scaly-foot
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Watch on YouTubeMake no mistake, my friends, we now face a derpy, scaly menace.
- Make no mistake, my friends, we now face a derpy, scaly menace.
- It's not been as bad, but I've just been a little bit scaly.
- Milton, his huge long tail wound up in hundredfolds, does overspread his long brass scaly back.
- And it just seems like I'm such a scaly woman now.
- And they, I seen guys, their skin get scaly, they get grayish looking.
Examples
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We widen and see that this watch is held in a green, scaly claw.
Fiction book (1994) -
And I got this black one that has sort of this scaly looking print on the front and like leathery details.
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Whereas when I felt this one on the other eye, it was very scaly, feeling like scaly and dry.
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And it just seems like I'm such a scaly woman now.
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A huge, monstrous scaly head come out of the water.
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As he walked through the forest, Bold reached a large scaly log and began to step over it.
Fiction book (2000) -
And the symptoms include patches of skin that are dry, scaly, red, sore and swollen.
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And worse, this evil head rose thirty feet on a green, scaly neck the approximate thickness of an ancient redwood.
Fiction book (1991) -
Hands gripped him from behind, scaly hands, clawlike hands, and hair coarse as straw blew across his face.
Fiction book (1999) -
She's an enormous beast, with great scaly feet and the most prominent pair of tusks I've ever seen.
Synonyms
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4.9
Covered with small overlapping hard plates like fish or armor
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9.9
Rough to the touch with many small bumps or scales
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5.0
Having dry, bumpy skin like a lizard or snake
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4.1
Having a body covered with small thin plates like fish or reptiles
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9.9
A surface that has small dry flakes like dandruff
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8.6
Covered in small, flat scales like a snake or fish
With small overlapping plates like fish scales
Rough to the touch because it is covered with small scales
Rough and covered with small scales or powder
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A mushroom with a scaly cap, white flesh, and a ring on its stalk that smells like licorice
A mushroom with a scaly cap and a stalk on the side that turns almost black on dead trees
How Scaly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Scaly comes from the simple word scale, which means 'small plate' or 'flake' like the pieces on a fish or lizard. So something scaly is covered in those little plate-like pieces or rough flakes, and that's why we call fish skin, reptile skin, or dry, flaky skin 'scaly'.