Scaly

a.	1.	Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish.
	2.	Resembling scales, laminæ, or layers.
	3.	Mean; low; as, a scaly fellow.
	4.	(Bot.) Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem. Scaly ant-eater (Zool.) the pangolin.

Adj.	1.	scaly - rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf Synonyms: lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scurfy
	2.	scaly - having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles Synonyms: scaled, scaley

asperous, branny, chalklike, chalky, comminute, comminuted, crushed, detrital, detrited, disintegrated, dusty, efflorescent, farinaceous, fine, flaky, flocculent, floury, furfuraceous, gone to dust, grated, ground, imbricated, impalpable, lamellar, lamellate, laminar, lentiginous, lepidote, levigated, mealy, milled, pestled, powdered, powdery, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, reduced to powder, rough, scabby, scabious, scabrous, scobicular, scobiform, scruffy, scurfy, sharded, shingly, shredded, squamous, triturated

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