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scaly

EnglishOxford American Thesaurus

scaly

adjective

1 the dragon's scaly hide:

technical squamate, squamose, squamous, lamellate, lamellar, lamelliform, lamellose;

rare squamulose.

2 scaly patches of dead skin:

dry, flaky, flaking, peeling, scurfy, rough, scabrous, mangy, scabious;

technical furfuraceous, lepidote.