English

Alternative forms

• scale-like

Adjective

scalelike ‎(comparative more scalelike, superlative most scalelike)

1. Resembling scales in shape or form
   • 1988, January 8, “Kitry Krause”, in On Exhibit: a menagerie of microscopic monsters:

     Below these antennae, a rounded flap hangs over all you can see of its bloodsucking stinger, a buckled straw apparently supported by a channel that is thick with scalelike excrescences.

Synonyms

• squamiform