What does "scaly" mean?
Scaly: Resembling scales, laminæ, or layers.
Additional senses
- 2.Mean; low; as, a scaly fellow. [Low]
- 3.(Bot.) Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem. Scaly ant-eater (Zoöl.), the pangolin.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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