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

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 Becke, Louis

The skin is scaleless, and like satin, embossed all over in little raised freckles, and with symmetrical dark lines, resembling the veining of a leaf.

From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis

He deserved it all—all labour, all devotion, all sacrifice; I would have toiled up a scaleless Alp, to pluck a flower that would please him.

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft