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Scalelike

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling scales in shape or form

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    reduced to a small appressed thing that resembles a scale wordnet

Etymology

From scale + -like.

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