Having or furnished with scales, as a fish or a serpent; scaly. Now rare except as second element of combinations, as silver-scaled, and Heraldry.

Of fishes, serpents, and other animals; frequently in poetry = pertaining to or consisting of fish (scaly flock, herd, nation, tribe).

Of (a part of) an animal: having a protective covering of scales or bony plates. Formerly also: †(of a part of a plant) covered in scales (obsolete).

Covered with scales; scaly.

Scale-bearing; squamiferous.

Covered or furnished with scales; scaly.

Natural History. In names of various animals characterized by a hard shield-like carapace or scute.

= squamose, adj. 1.

= 1.

Covered with ‘armour’ or adjoining plates or scales; having a lorica.

Zoology. Covered with scuta or large flat scales.

Provided or covered with squamæ or scales.

= scutellate, adj.

Protected by a covering of plates or scales, or of other matter; armed with a lorica; Zoology = loricate, adj.