scaleless
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈskeɪl.ləs/
Adjective
scaleless (not comparable)
- Lacking anything to give a sense of scale; not having a reference for size.
- Of a surface: free from deposits of scale.
- (botany, zoology) Not having scales.
- Synonym: esquamulose
- Antonyms: scaly, squamulose
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 65:
- There are also some surprises such as Eurotamandua, a scaleless pangolin that looks astonishingly like a South American anteater.
- Without using a set of scales.
- scaleless dieting
Derived terms
Translations
(botany, zoology) not having scales
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