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
It is a scaleless, snake-like fish, often nearly 5 ft. long, which resembles the C. anguillaris of Egypt.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
We tried fishing, though never got anything but some grey scaleless creatures with feelers hanging about their gills.
From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
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
