scalelike

English

Alternative forms

• scale-like

Etymology

From scale +‎ -like.

Adjective

scalelike (comparative more scalelike, superlative most scalelike)

1. Resembling scales in shape or form
   • 1988 January 8, Kitry Krause, “On Exhibit: a menagerie of microscopic monsters”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     Below these antennae, a rounded flap hangs over all you can see of its bloodsucking stinger, a buckled straw apparently supported by a channel that is thick with scalelike excrescences.

Synonyms

• squamiform, squamoid