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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
scaly
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
scaly (=hard and dry, like the skin on animals such as lizards)
▪ The crocodile’s scaly skin is ideally suited to its way of life.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
skin
▪ Their warty, slimy and sometimes scaly skins can be almost any colour.
▪ Symptoms are scaly skin, itching, inflammation and blisters.
▪ And a scaly skin solves the problem of drying out even in intense heat.
▪ Only the legs of birds show the tough scaly skin that reflects their reptilian ancestry.
▪ The scaly skin of reptiles is ideally suited for development into sharply spiked armour.
▪ Certain lizards take the spiky defence trend a major step further, with long, sharp spines growing out of their scaly skins.
▪ As Ornithischosus increased in size its scaly skin replaced the bony armour as the danger from predators lessened.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Dandruff is characterized by a scaly and sometimes itchy scalp.
▪ To relieve tight or scaly skin, add a teaspoon of fine oil to your bathwater.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An awareness crept upon him with dank, scaly fingers.
▪ From the road the Church looked diseased, scaly, malnourished.
▪ In the Old World they have a counterpart in the form of the strange, scaly anteaters, the pangolins.
▪ Symptoms are scaly skin, itching, inflammation and blisters.
▪ That snake, however, in all its wriggling, scaly glory, would never find its way into network fare.
▪ The fish-heads floated at the top, their scaly jaws agog, eve-sockets empty.
▪ Their warty, slimy and sometimes scaly skins can be almost any colour.
▪ This is characterised by a scaly and sometimes itchy scalp, but it shouldn't be red or sore.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scaly

Scaly \Scal"y\, a.

  1. Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish. ``Scaly crocodile.''
    --Milton.

  2. Resembling scales, lamin[ae], or layers.

  3. Mean; low; as, a scaly fellow. [Low]

  4. (Bot.) Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem.

    Scaly ant-eater (Zo["o]l.), the pangolin.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
scaly

also scaley, late 14c., from scale (n.1) + -y (2). Related: Scaliness.

Wiktionary
scaly

a. 1 Covered or abounding with scale; as, a scaly fish. 2 Resembling scales, laminae, or layers. 3 (context dated vulgar or South African English) Mean; low. 4 Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem. n. (context South Africa English) The scaly yellowfish, (taxlink Labeobarbus natalensis species noshow=1).

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WordNet
scaly

  1. adj. rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf [syn: lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scurfy]

  2. having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles [syn: scaley, scaled]

  3. [also: scaliest, scalier]

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Wikipedia
Scaly

Scaly may refer to:

  • something with the appearance of a scale
  • Scaly-breasted lorikeet (Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus), a bird species found in woodland in eastern Australia
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Usage examples of "scaly".

He turned around, and ducked, as all the blades came off the Blader, and it was now simply a body a scaly body, with nothing to protect it.

The species of shroud that was wrapped around him had fallen below his loins, and his shoulders and chest and lean arms were hidden under blotches of scaly pustules.

Ojo Caliente was constantly being reshaped and rebuilt, in places spongy, in other places cracked and hard and brittle, the stuff of geyserite: a hydrous form of silica, a variety of opal deposited in gray and white concretelike masses, porous, filamentous, and scaly.

His cuirassiers are described as so many massy statues of steel, glittering with their scaly armor, and breaking with their ponderous lances the firm array of the Gallic legions.

The butt of her weapon hit the mast hard, and the onrushing merrow supplied the force needed to push the barbed weapon through its scaly hide.

Halfway there, the scaly hulk of a pangolin reared out of the tall grass and honked angrily.

Vppon the brimme of the hollow vessell, whose compasse was a foote moreouer about, then the subiacent of it, with their heades lifted vp vpon their Vipers feete, with a conuenient and decent intercalation, there were placed sixe little scaly Dragons, of pure shining Golde, with such a deuise, that the water comming from the teates of the Ladies, did fall directly vppon the euacuated and open crowne of the head of the Dragons, afore spoken of, with their winges spredde abroad, and as if they had been byting, they did cast vp and vomit the same water whiche fell beyonde the roundnes of the Ophict, into a receptorie of Porphyr, and rounde, whiche were both more higher then the flatnesse of the pauement before spoken of: where there was a little Channell going rounde about betwyxt the Ophit and the Porphyrite, in breadth one foote and a halfe, and in depth two foote.

One of the scalies was still twitching, its claws scraping on the stone.

One of the scalies pushed them down onto the floor, waving the metal butt of his whip to reinforce the order.

Krysty, then looked around to make sure none of the scalies were nearby.

Every now and again a patrol of the scalies would stomp by, boots crashing in the confines of the corridors.

Doc and Krysty were in one of the darkest parts of the old warehouse, but there were dozens of scalies between them and the main exit.

It foamed and frothed around the feet, ankles and knees of the group of scalies that had been charging forward.

Dred talked about them, the scalies control most of this southwest part of the ville.

The skin, if anything, seemed scalier and greener than Kelvin remembered.