The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scaleless \Scale"less\, a. Destitute of scales.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context zoology English) Not having scales. 2 Not having a reference for size, lacking anything to give a sense of scale. 3 (context of a surface English) Free from deposits of scale.
WordNet
adj. destitute of scales
Usage examples of "scaleless".
The other was bearing down on him, and his scaleless belly was exposed.
Embedded in this one was a tangle of life-function sensor relays that his thin scaleless skin would not obstruct.
Atop the head, at the base of several long, supple spines, was a raised protrusion crowned with rows of scaleless flesh that occasionally fluttered as she exhaled.
Not slimy, like a fish, and with no scales, though there were scaleless fish.
The fish flopped onto a plank, its scaleless pewter body jerking in spasms.
The jadelike sheen of his smooth, scaleless skin further set him apart from the warmer colors of the merfolk and their scaled tails.
In the first spring flight we saw the new-hatched younglings, soft and scaleless, their awkward, half-spread wings still glistening sticky white.
I would have toiled up a scaleless Alp, to pluck a flower that would please him.
But beyond, and high above all, as if the spirits of the air had suddenly unveiled their bright abodes, placed in scaleless altitude in the stainless sky, heaven-kissing, companions of the unattainable ether, were the glorious Alps, clothed in dazzling robes of light by the setting sun.
But they were on the same plate as the forbidden scaleless fish and so contaminated.
Her eyelids drooped, and she fell into her recurring dream of the sleeping dragon, focusing on the smooth scaleless skin of its chest, a patch of whiteness that came to surround her, to draw her into a world of whiteness with the serene constancy of its rhythmic rise and fall, as unvarying and predictable as the ticking of a perfect clock.
Interior muscles contracted and pushed until, miraculously, painlessly, a tiny head emerged, encased in a fleshy sack, followed by a soft, scaleless body which wiggled with life and reeked with the products of birth.
Her head, although still covered with blonde hair, had transformed into that of a scaleless fish, complete with whiskerlike barbels.
The jadelike sheen of his smooth, scaleless skin further set him apart from the warmer colors of the merfolk and their scaled tails.