scalelike
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- scale-like
Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]scalelike (comparative more scalelike, superlative most scalelike)
- 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.