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English
Etymology
From scale + -like.
Adjective
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: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.
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