scalelike

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adjective

Resembling scales in shape or form

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OriginProto-Germanic *līką ← Proto-Indo-European *leyg- ← English scale →
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Meanings

adjectivescalelike (comparative more scalelike, superlative most scalelike)

comparative more scalelike · superlative most scalelike

  1. Resembling scales in shape or form

    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.

    1988 January 8, Kitry Krause, “On Exhibit: a menagerie of microscopic monsters”, in Chicago Reader

    Synonyms: squamiform, squamoid

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveResembling scales in shape or form

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squamiformsquamoid

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivereduced to a small appressed thing that resembles a scale

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squamiformsquamoid

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*skend-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kn̥d-sleh₂
  3. Proto-Italic*skand-slā
  4. Latinscāla
  5. Middle Englishscale
  6. Englishscale
  7. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  8. Proto-Germanic*līką
  9. Englishscalelike

From scale + -like.

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Cite this entry
APA

scalelike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scalelike

MLA

“scalelike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scalelike. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scalelike,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scalelike.

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