scaly

Word family

1. HBa scaly animal or fish is covered with small flat pieces of hard skin 有鳞片的，有鳞的 →4 See picture on 见图 Page A12 Surfaces 表面

2. HBHMIscaly skin is dry and rough 〔皮肤〕干涩粗糙的

Examples from the Corpus

scaly• This is characterised by a scaly and sometimes itchy scalp, but it shouldn't be red or sore.• Dandruff is characterized by a scaly and sometimes itchy scalp.• In the Old World they have a counterpart in the form of the strange, scaly anteaters, the pangolins.• An awareness crept upon him with dank, scaly fingers.• That snake, however, in all its wriggling, scaly glory, would never find its way into network fare.• The fish-heads floated at the top, their scaly jaws agog, eve-sockets empty.• From the road the Church looked diseased, scaly, malnourished.• To relieve tight or scaly skin, add a teaspoon of fine oil to your bathwater.• Symptoms are scaly skin, itching, inflammation and blisters.• Their warty, slimy and sometimes scaly skins can be almost any colour.

Chinese

Syllable

Corpus

BNC: 22479 COCA: 20772

scaly adj.
⇨ coarse

BNC: 22479 COCA: 20772

scaly

Words used to describe animals: amphibious, androgynous, anthropoid...

Dry to the touch: dry, papery, scaly...