scalation
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Origin of scalation
Example Sentences
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The Pink-tongued skink is specifically Cyclodomorphus-like in its pattern of supraocular scalation, in the arrangement of its skull bones, and even in the sort of tongue-flicking behaviour it practises.
From Scientific American • Nov. 15, 2012
Many specimens deviate from the scalation typical of the form they represent, and key out to other species.
From Occurrence of the Garter Snake, Thamnophis sirtalis, in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains by Fitch, Henry S.
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