Adjective:

मछली-संबंधी, फटा-पुराना, मोरचा लगा हुआ, ज़ंग लगा हुआ, परतदार, दरिद्र,

scaly's Usage Examples:

numbers on the mud flats at the mouths of rivers in the tropics, skipping about by means of the muscular, scaly base of their pectoral fins, with the head raised and bearing a pair of strongly projecting versatile eyes close together.

In the beavers or Castoridae these bones are in close contact at their lower ends, the tail is depressed, expanded and scaly, and the habits are aquatic. Beavers have webbed hind-feet, and the claw of the second hind-toe double.

Crystals are prismatic, acicular or scaly in habit; they have a perfect cleavage parallel to the brachypinacoid (M in the figure).

Scaly Column.

The scaly fish include members of the carp and perch kind.

arvensis, is probably a variety of the pasture mushroom; it grows in rings in woody places and under trees and hedges in meadows; it has a large scaly round cap, and the flesh quickly changes to buff or brown when cut or broken; the stem too is hollow.

There is also a scaly ant-eater and various species of pangolins, of arboreal habit, which live on ants.

Tongue scaly, feebly nicked in front.

Though generally nearly smooth, or but slightly scaly, the surface of some hairs is imbricated; that is to say, shows projecting scale-like processes, as in some bats, while in the twotoed sloth (Choloepus) they are longitudinally grooved or fluted.

The scaly ramenta which occur in abundance on the leaf-stalk bases of fossil Cycads constitute another fern-character surviving in Mesozoic Cycadales.

Synonyms:

armored, scaley, scaled, armoured,

Antonyms:

fine, slippery, polished, regular, unarmored,