SCALY meaning: Covered with scales; rough, flaky

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word scaly:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

scaly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
scaly: Merriam-Webster
scaly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
scaly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
scaly: Collins English Dictionary
scaly: Vocabulary.com
Scaly, scaly: Wordnik
scaly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
scaly: Wiktionary
scaly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
scaly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
scaly: Infoplease Dictionary
scaly: Dictionary.com
scaly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Scaly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
scaly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
scaly: Rhymezone
Scaly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
scaly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
SCALY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
scaly: FreeDictionary.org
scaly: Mnemonic Dictionary
scaly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

scaly: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)

scaly: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
scaly: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)

Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

scaly, scaly: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
scaly: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Covered or abounding with scales.
▸ adjective:  Composed of scales lying over each other.
▸ adjective:  Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.
▸ adjective:  (dated, vulgar or South Africa) low, mean.
▸ noun:  (South Africa) The scaly yellowfish (Labeobarbus natalensis).

Similar:

scaley, lepidote, scaled, scurfy, scabrous, leprose, rough, armored, armoured, unsmooth, more...

Opposite:

smooth, sleek, slick, polished

Types:

fish, lizard, snake, chicken, shark, crocodile, alligator, chameleon, more...

Phrases:

scaly bark, scaly anteater, scaly leg, scaly anteaters, scaly fern, more...

Adjectives:

densely, dry, little, more, anal, tegument, lower, numerous, squamous, soapy, outside

Colors:

olive, sage, emerald, forest green, teal, more...