scalelike
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.