Scalelike

Word SCALELIKE
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Her dress was almost scalelike: a shimmering aqua that draped her slender figure with greens and shadows that seemed to slink through the material. ❋ Kaza Kingsley (2010)

Introduced Huon pine trees, of the same vintage as the old rail line, provide a thick and fragrant layer of scalelike leaves across the track, and slippery jack mushrooms poke through the litter. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hair is good at soaking up oil because, up close, the strands are shaped like a palm tree with scalelike cuticles. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Wool fibers have a scalelike surface structure; the scales will expand slightly on exposure to hot water (that of the dye bath, for example) and contract again on cooling. ❋ Unknown (2006)

They describe the colour, shape, and size of the buds, and also their gummy and scalelike covering. ❋ Ontario. Ministry Of Education (N/A)

The younger parts of the tree were clothed with stiff needle-shaped leaves, but elsewhere the trunk and branches were marked with scalelike scars, left by the fallen leaves, and arranged in spiral rows. ❋ William Harmon Norton (1900)

Like many others of the scale bugs, the cochineal males have wings and are not so scalelike as their helpless mates. ❋ Margaret Warner Morley (1890)

The tops of old trees are almost always dead, and large stubborn-looking limbs push out horizontally, most of them broken and dead at the end, but densely covered, and imbedded here and there with tufts or mounds of gray-green scalelike foliage. ❋ John Muir (1876)

[20] They are about 6-15 inches in diameter which are tiny and scalelike. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The updated title lets players create avatars of their dogs and cats, enter information such as their pet's birthday, and use the scalelike Wii Balance Board controller to weigh themselves and their pets. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Bud scales are scalelike coverings protecting terminal buds during winters when bud growth stops. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Species are also called ground pine or ground cedar and have attractive scalelike leaves and, unlike true mosses, do have a vascular system with specialized cells for fluid transport.

During a penguin’s molt, which takes two to four weeks, every last feather—including the tiny, scalelike feathers on their wings—falls out and new feathers grow in. ❋ Dyan DeNapoli (2010)

"A well-marked case of pseudo-leprosy or ichthyosis, a scalelike affection of the skin, unsightly, obstinate, but possibly curable, and certainly noninfective. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1927)

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