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scaleless

  • a word derived from scale.
    scale

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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

It is scaleless, and almost finless, with a dangerously barbed dorsal spine, which, if it inflicts a wound on the hand, causes days of intense suffering.

From The Call Of The South 1908 by Louis Becke

The head of axillaris is scaleless, and a row of pores runs along the lower jaw, up the preoperculum, and along the temporal groove.

From Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. by John Lort Stokes

He gets away the next day, and reaches a fish market, in the little island of Kabizia, in time to breakfast on a large, black-backed, scaleless monster, the singa.

From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by William Henry Giles Kingston