scale
scaleless
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a word derived from
scale.
Example Sentences
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Bosworth said he counted around 100 dead yellow perch along the Kirkland shoreline in early June and also found some dead sticklebacks, which are small, scaleless fish with spines.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 16, 2023
They united over the freshwater lamprey, a scaleless vertebrate, not dissimilar to an eel, which sinks its teeth into other fish and sucks their blood.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 20, 2013
The majority of the coast settlers will not eat them, being under the idea that, as they are all but scaleless, they are "poisonous."
From By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories by Louis Becke
And as this question pounded upon her brain she looked for the first time with scaleless eyes at her husband.
From The Hills of Refuge A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben
Their slimy, scaleless skins were a muddy yellow, and in general they resembled an eel with legs.
From "Five-Head" Creek; and Fish Drugging In The Pacific 1901 by Louis Becke
