scaleless
- 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 Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 by Becke, Louis
The head of axillaris is scaleless, and a row of pores runs along the lower jaw, up the preoperculum, and along the temporal groove.
The bayad, a scaleless fish commonly eaten, reaches sometimes 3� ft. in length.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
