Scaly

Definition: Scaly

Scaly

Adjective

1. (biology) rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf.

2. (zoology) having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "scaly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Mining

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Scaly

Covering

Adjective: covering; Verb: superimposed, overlaid, plated; Verb: cutaneous, dermal, cortical, cuticular, tegumentary, skinny, scaly, squamous; covered; Verb: imbricated, loricated, armor plated, ironclad; under cover; cowled, cucullate, dermatoid, encuirassed, hooded, squamiferous, tectiform; vaginate.

Layer

Adjective: lamellar, lamellated, lamelliform, layered; laminated, laminiferous; micaceous; schistose, schistous; scaly, filmy, membranous, pellicular, flaky, squamous; foliated, foliaceous; stratified, stratiform; tabular, discoid; spathic, spathose.

Roughness

Adjective: rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly,knotted; rugged, rugose, rugous; knurly; asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn; craggy, cragged; crankling, scraggy; prickly; (sharp); arborescent; leafy, well-wooded; feathery; plumose, plumigerous; laciniate, laciniform, laciniose; pappose; pileous, pilose; trichogenous, trichoid; tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute; crinose, crinite; bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged; fringed, befringed; setous, setose, setaceous; "like quills upon the fretful porcupine"; rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear.

Crosswords: Scaly

Well, Pete, there are all manner of lesser imps and demons, but the great Satan hisself is red and scaly with a bifurcated tail, and he carries a hay fork (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen)

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Books

• DK Readers: Slinky, Scaly Snakes (Level 2: Beginning to Read Alone) (reference)

• Lilly's Ark Scaly (reference)

• Scaly and Slimy in 3-D!: Includes Book and 3d Glasses (Nature Company) (reference)

• Scaly Facts (reference)

• Scaly Reptiles (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Dr. Joseph Goldberger conducted the first nutritional research by the Hygienic Laboratory on Staten Island in 1914. He discovered that Pellagra, a disease that caused red and scaly skin, diarrhea, depression and insanity, was caused by vitamin deficiencies. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

A flat red spot that is rough, dry or scaly may indicate skin cancer. See artwork: RR-15b, WYNTK-22b. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

A flat, red spot that has become rough, dry and scaly may indicate skin cancer. See artwork: RR-15b, WYNTK-22b. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

Nystagmus (rapid, involuntary to-and-fro eye movements), anosmia (absence of the sense of smell), and ichthyosis (a skin disorder causing dry, rough, scaly skin) may also occur. (references)

The spasticity sometimes occurs with abnormalities such as optic neuropathy, retinopathy (disease of the retina), dementia, ataxia (lack of muscle control), ichthyosis (a skin disorder causing dry, rough, scaly skin), mental retardation, and deafness. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "scaly": scaly anteater ♦ scaly fern ♦ scaly lentinus ♦ Scaly Mountain ♦ scaly pholiota ♦ scaly polypore ♦ scaly scaley scaled ♦ scaly skin ♦ scaly tetter. Additional references.

Beginning with "scaly": scaly-tailed, Scaly-winged.

Albanian

me smërç, me luspa (scaled), i leskëruar (scaled, scurfy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقرمز مرض, ‏قشري (crusty), ‏وضيع (contemptible, cowardly, grubby, humble, inferior, low, low-grade, lowly, mean, menial, scabby, scruffy, scurvy, slavish, slight, snide, vile), ‏حقير (abject, base, beggarly, blackguardly, cheap, despicable, dingy, dirty, frowzy, grubby, ignoble, inferior, insignificant, lousy, low, low down, lowly, mean, menial, niggling, paltry, pettifogger, petty, pip squeak, pitiable, pitiful, poor, popinjay, rotten, scabby, scoundrelly, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, servile, shabby, shoddy, slavish, slim, slushy, small minded, snide, sod, squalid, swine, tacky, trifling, ungracious, unworthy, varmint, vile, villainous, worthless, wretched), ‏حرشفي, ‏ذو قشور. (various references)

Bulgarian 

низък (abject, base, contemptible, degraded, ignoble, low down, low-minded, mangy, mean, mean-spirited, miscreant, paltry, scurvy, unworthy, vile, villainous, yellow), жалък (abject, lamentable, mangy, miserable, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, pokey, poor, sad, scabbed, scabby, scrubby, sorrowful, sorry, squalid, woeful), люспест (flaky, husky, placoid, strigose), покрит с котлен камък (furred), долен (abject, base, bottom, contemptible, currish, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, inferior, iniquitous, low, lower, low-grade, mangy, mean, mean-spirited, rascal, ratty, reptile, rotten, scurvy, shady, under, unworthy, vile, villainous). (various references)

Chinese 

鳞状. (various references)

Czech

šupinatý. (various references)

Danish

svampe med krokodillehud (crocodiles, scaly and cracked caps), skaellede svampe (crocodiles, scaly and cracked caps), skaeldyr (pangolins, scaly ant-eaters). (various references)

Dutch

stekelstaarteekhoorns (scaly-tailed squirrels), schubdieren (pangolins, scaly ant-eaters), termieteneters (pangolins, scaly ant-eaters), Temminck-Schubdier (cape pangolin, scaly ant-eater Temminck's ground pangolin, south african pangolin), Krokodillen (crocodile), afgeschilferde kop (chipped finish, chipped rim, chipped ring, scaly ring). (various references)

Farsi 

فلس فلس , فلس مانند, پولک دار (Scaled), ناهموار (Bumpy, Jagged, Ragged, Rough, Rude, Rugged, Uneven, Unfair), زبر (Coarse, Prickly, Ragged, Rough, Russet, Russeting, Shaggy, Stark, Stubby). (various references)

Finnish

suomuinen (lamellar). (various references)

French

squameux, présentant des écailles, plaquettes, méprisable (scabby), lamelles, lâche, écailleux, écailles (scales). (various references)

German

schuppig (dandruffy, flaking, flaky). (various references)

Greek 

σκεπασμένοσ με λέπια, φολιδωτόσ (squamate), λεπιδωτόσ (scaled, squamate). (various references)

Hebrew 

מכוס�" קשקשים, קשקשי (flaky, squamate). (various references)

Hungarian

pikkelyes (scaled, scutate), vízköves, pikkelyesen hámló, kazánköves (furred), hályogos (filmy). (various references)

Indonesian

bersisik (squamous). (various references)

Italian

squamoso (squamose, squamous). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鱗状 (scale-like). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

り�"じょう (annular, attendance, presence, ring-shaped, scale-like, visit). (various references)

Korean 

비늘 모양. (various references)

Manx

scaaillagh (flaky, scaled, squamose). (various references)

Pig Latin

alyscay.(various references)

Portuguese

miudinho (choosey, choosy, niggling, punctilious, squeamish), miserável (abject, costive, dismal, evil, godforsaken, logy, meager, misbegotten, miscreant, miserable, miserly, paltry, picayune, pimping, poky, poor, rascally, scoundrel, scurvy, skinflint, sordid, squalid, wretch, wretched), mesquinho (cheeseparing, close-fisted, costive, despicable, illiberal, little, logy, mangy, mean, mingy, miserly, niggling, peddling, penurious, pimping, pitiable, scrubby, scurvy, small, sordid, stingy, unhandsome), com incrustações, com escamas (scaled, scutate). (various references)

Romanian

solzos (scaled), foliform. (various references)

Russian 

чешуйчатый (flaky, scaled, squamous). (various references)

Scottish

sligneach. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pokriven krljuštima (scaled). (various references)

Spanish

escamoso (flaky, scaled). (various references)

Swedish

fjällig (flaky, scaled). (various references)

Turkish

pulsu, pullu (furfuraceous, lamellar, lamellate, scaled, squamate, squamous), pul pul (flaked, scabrous, squamate, squamous), kabuklanmış (scabbed, scabby, scabrous). (various references)

Ukrainian

шаруватий (flaky, laminar, laminate, laminated, schistose, schistous, slaty, tabulate, tabulated), лускатий (leprous), пошарпаний (battered, disreputable, old, ole, well worn), покритий накипом (scurfy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

có vảy; xếp như vảy cá có cáu, đê tiện (abject, contemptible, hangdog, ignoble, ignominious, lousily, plebeian, scabbily, scabby, scurvy, servile, shabby, small), đáng khinh (contemptible, dirty, picayune, scurvy, threepenny, unworthy). (various references)

Welsh

cennog (scurfy). (various references)

scaber, squamosus. (various references)

Misspellings

"Scaly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: asmalyk, Caly, Mcfly, Saclay, Sacli, Scaglia, scail, scal, Scaley, Scali, scalien, scally, scalr, scalu, Scalz, sceal, Sceli, schal, Schally, schalt, Scharli, scle, Scoli, Scolty, scoy, sculi, scully, secay, shayla, sialyl, skal, skala, Skelly. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: acyls, clays.

-1 letter: acyl, cays, clay, lacs, lacy, lays, slay.

-2 letters: als, ays, cay, lac, las, lay, sac, sal, say, sly.

-3 letters: al, as, ay, la, ya.

+1 letter: classy.

+2 letters: acetyls, calyces, calypso, calyxes, chlamys, clayish, crassly, crystal, cullays, cyclase, cymbals, cypsela, dactyls, galyacs, glycans, lackeys, saucily, scantly, scarily, scrawly, slackly.

+3 letters: acolytes, acrylics, acylates, acyloins, aglycons, alcaydes, cacodyls, calisaya, callboys, caloyers, calycles, calypsos, casually, casualty, catalyst, causally, charleys, chastely, classify, classily, clayiest, claypans, coarsely, crayolas, crystals, cyclases, cypselae, dactylus, ecdysial, fiscally, halcyons, lacqueys, mystical, physical, playacts, rascally, sacredly, salacity, saliency, scabbily, scalably, scantily, scarcely, schmalzy, scrabbly, scraggly, secantly, sociably, socially, stanchly, syllabic, sylvatic, syncopal, syndical.