What is "scalelike"

Usage examples of "scalelike".

From her thighs to her shoulders, she was covered with scalelike green leaves.

They pinched and poked and bent her scalelike leaves aside to expose her skin.

The man with the black curls was by the concourse wall again, his stare seeming as hot as summer sunlight on the scalelike leaves that covered her skin.

Camidan, twice her height and covered with rustling scalelike excrescences, presented himself.

The filament was fixed transversely to the basal and almost upright half of the shoot, close beneath the lowest scalelike appendage.

Hrecker leaned toward her, studying the small, scalelike leaves that covered her skin.

The gnome hummed to himself, then started to sing a scalelike melody entirely out of tune.

Ennis tore at the controls, granite-hard muscles standing out in bas-relief over his short, immensely thick body, skin gleaming scalelike in the slashing spray.

Aliisza knew that with her magic the scalelike ridges protruding from atop those foreheads were no threat to her, but still the creatures seemed uncertain of who she was, for they kept their battle-axes crossed before the opening as she approached.

The combustible fuel within the housing swam through the mechanisms, chilled by scalelike cooling vanes.

Between his body and the outside jacket was the scalelike, bulletproof vest.

He then reached into the scalelike skirt hung from his waist and brought out a pencil-like gadget with some small knobs on two sides.

Walker could not tell if it was leathery, scalelike, or something previously unencountered.

There are also bracts, consisting of inert, scalelike organisms that fit over the stem and help protect it from physical damage.

Impaled within the array, the creature writhes in agony, its girth disappearing then reappearing within waves of sizzling emerald energy, its scalelike plumage and spines standing on end in rhythmic spasms.