scaly

Covered or partially covered with scales.

Shedding scales or flakes; flaking.

Covered with a scale or incrustation, as a boiler or kettle in which water containing mineral salts which become insoluble on heating has been evaporated.

Covered with scales; provided with scales; scaled; squamate; scutellate.

Scale-like; of the nature of a scale; squamous.

Furfuraceous; scarious; desquamated; exfoliated; scabby.

In botany, composed of scales lying over one another: as, a scaly bulb; having scales scattered over it: as, a scaly stem.

Shabby; mean; stingy.

Covered or abounding with scales.

Resembling scales, laminæ, or layers.