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The frigid Irish sea seems to have kept these scaly invaders at bay, since no one has ever found serpentine fossils in the country.
A guide to all the places with no snakes|empire|August 13, 2021|Popular-Science
However, a study published this month in Current Biology has begun to unravel some of these scaly critters’ secrets.
These ancient deep-sea fish can live five times as long as biologists expected|Sara Kiley Watson|June 25, 2021|Popular-Science
While lizards have dry, scaly skin, salamanders typically have to keep their skin moist, and some spend their entire lives in water.
Salamanders have a secret to surviving climate change|Benji Jones|June 17, 2021|Vox
Owning anything furry, scaly or feathery has always seemed to me like a lot of work, a lot of noise and a lot of mess.
I never liked animals. Then I got a pandemic pet bunny.|Sarah Garone|April 2, 2021|Washington Post

Since its founding in 2014, the rescue center has saved more than 1,300 pangolins and returned 60 percent of the scaly mammals to the wild.
A virtual menagerie: How conservation and rescue efforts can connect us with wildlife around the world|Andrea Sachs|January 15, 2021|Washington Post
Even bullets will fly off from any other part of the scaly covering as though they had struck against a stone wall.
Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin|Mary Hazelton Wade
Its scaly body wound about her boot, the flat head swaying from side to side, was a huge rattlesnake.
The Adventure Girls at K Bar O|Clair Blank
Some have, indeed, confounded the scaly lizards of the East Indies with the armadillos of America.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VII (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
The tail was covered with hair for two or three inches from the beginning, and the rest of it with a smooth scaly skin to the end.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VII (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Indeed, you could as little get hold of Chopin as, to use L. Enault's expression, of the scaly back of a siren.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician|Frederick Niecks

British Dictionary definitions for scaly

scaly

/ (ˈskeɪlɪ) /

adjective scalier or scaliest

resembling or covered in scales

peeling off in scales

Derived forms of scaly

scaliness, noun

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scaly

[ skā′lē ]

adj.

Covered or partially covered with scales.

Shedding scales or flakes; flaking.

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