scaly

About 0.61 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Covered or abounding with scales.

   a scaly fish a scaly stem

2. adjective Composed of scales lying over each other.

   a scaly bulb

3. adjective Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.
4. adjective low, mean.

   a scaly fellow

5. noun The scaly yellowfish (Labeobarbus natalensis).

Similar words

scaled lepidote leprose scurfy scabrous scaley armored armoured rough unsmooth

Often followed by

skin and patches or bark tail body appearance lesions

Word family

scalier scaliest scaliness scalinesses