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单词 silver-scaled
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silver-scaledadj.

Etymology: < silver n. and adj. Compounds 1b.
Having silvery scales.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [adjective] > having a hard protective covering > having scales > having silvery scales
silver-scaled1430
1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1558) viii. xxv. 18 Bryght siluer scaled domageth the dragon.
c1450 J. Lydgate Secrees 674 Whysperyng tounges of taast moost serpentyn, Silvir scalyd whoos mouth is ful of blood.
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid xii. Prol. 55 The syluer scalyt fyschis on the greit.
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler i. 37 The silver-scaled fish that softly swim Within the sweet brooks chrystal, watry stream. View more context for this quotation
1827 W. Scott Highland Widow in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. I. xii. 235 Will the ocean afford you the silver-scaled salmon of the Awe?
1861 W. F. Collier Hist. Eng. Lit. 403 A silver-scaled twenty-pounder.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

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silver-scaled
1. 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.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [adjective] > having a hard protective covering > having scales
scaleda1400
scaly1528
plateda1560
squamy1592
squamigerous1656
squamose1661
shielded1662
squamous1668
squamated1752
scutated1802
loricate1826
scutate1826
squamate1826
scutulate1827
loricated1871
scutulated1885
a1400–50 Alexander 3865 Scalid neddirs.
c1420 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 614 Formyd lyke a dragon, scalyd harde as glas.
1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie i. 235 The creatures chelled, named Conchilia, and also of those that are scaled (called insecta).
1589 J. Eldred in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 232 Euphrates..hath diuers sorts of fish in it, but all are scaled.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. v. 96 A Cesterne for scal'd Snakes. View more context for this quotation
1659 T. Pecke Parnassi Puerperium 155 The scal'd Crocodile, out-weep Thee can.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 455/1 An Indian scaled Hedghog.
1866 J. E. Cussans Gram. Heraldry 32 Fish are described as being scaled and finned.
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