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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 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

The narrow, slightly pitted, scaleless disk of the preoperculum bounds the scaly cheek behind and below, and has an entire edge with neither spine nor acute angle at the bend.

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

The faces were scaleless, low-browed and green-eyed, with a jutting mouth and nose that came together in a sort of snout.

From The Golden Amazons of Venus by John Murray Reynolds