Definitions
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- adjective Resembling
scales in shape or form
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective reduced to a small appressed thing that resembles a scale
Etymologies
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Examples
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Her dress was almost scalelike: a shimmering aqua that draped her slender figure with greens and shadows that seemed to slink through the material.
The Three Furies Kaza Kingsley 2010
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Introduced Huon pine trees, of the same vintage as the old rail line, provide a thick and fragrant layer of scalelike leaves across the track, and slippery jack mushrooms poke through the litter.
Breaking Away 2009
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Hair is good at soaking up oil because, up close, the strands are shaped like a palm tree with scalelike cuticles.
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Wool fibers have a scalelike surface structure; the scales will expand slightly on exposure to hot water (that of the dye bath, for example) and contract again on cooling.
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They describe the colour, shape, and size of the buds, and also their gummy and scalelike covering.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education
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The younger parts of the tree were clothed with stiff needle-shaped leaves, but elsewhere the trunk and branches were marked with scalelike scars, left by the fallen leaves, and arranged in spiral rows.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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Like many others of the scale bugs, the cochineal males have wings and are not so scalelike as their helpless mates.
The Insect Folk Margaret Warner Morley 1890
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The tops of old trees are almost always dead, and large stubborn-looking limbs push out horizontally, most of them broken and dead at the end, but densely covered, and imbedded here and there with tufts or mounds of gray-green scalelike foliage.
The Yosemite John Muir 1876
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[20] They are about 6-15 inches in diameter which are tiny and scalelike.
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The updated title lets players create avatars of their dogs and cats, enter information such as their pet's birthday, and use the scalelike Wii Balance Board controller to weigh themselves and their pets.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010
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