| scaly | (zoology) having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles |
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| scaly | (biology) rough to the touch |
| scaly | toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites |
| scaly | small European fern with chaffy leathery fronds |
| scaly | a fungus with a scaly cap and white flesh and a ring on the stalk (with scales below the ring) |
| scaly | a gilled fungus with a cap and stalk that are conspicuously scaly with upright scales |
| scaly | a fungus with a lateral stalk (when there is a stalk) and a scaly cap that becomes nearly black in maturity |