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scaly

/skey-lee/US // ˈskeɪ li //UK // (ˈskeɪlɪ) //

鳞片状,有鳞的,鳞片,鳞片状的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    scal·i·er, scal·i·est.

    • : covered with or abounding in scales or scale.
    • : characterized by or consisting of scales; scalelike.
    • : peeling or flaking off in scales.
    • : Slang. shabby; despicable.

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Examples

  • The frigid Irish sea seems to have kept these scaly invaders at bay, since no one has ever found serpentine fossils in the country.

  • However, a study published this month in Current Biology has begun to unravel some of these scaly critters’ secrets.

  • While lizards have dry, scaly skin, salamanders typically have to keep their skin moist, and some spend their entire lives in water.

  • Owning anything furry, scaly or feathery has always seemed to me like a lot of work, a lot of noise and a lot of mess.

  • Since its founding in 2014, the rescue center has saved more than 1,300 pangolins and returned 60 percent of the scaly mammals to the wild.

  • Even bullets will fly off from any other part of the scaly covering as though they had struck against a stone wall.

  • Its scaly body wound about her boot, the flat head swaying from side to side, was a huge rattlesnake.

  • Some have, indeed, confounded the scaly lizards of the East Indies with the armadillos of America.

  • The tail was covered with hair for two or three inches from the beginning, and the rest of it with a smooth scaly skin to the end.

  • Indeed, you could as little get hold of Chopin as, to use L. Enault's expression, of the scaly back of a siren.