| Scaly 1. (a.) Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish. 2. (a.) Resembling scales, laminae, or layers. 3. (a.) Mean; low; as, a scaly fellow. 4. (a.) Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem. Thesaurus Entries asperous, branny, chalklike, chalky, comminute, comminuted, crushed, detrital, detrited, disintegrated, dusty, efflorescent, farinaceous, fine, flaky, flocculent, floury, furfuraceous, gone to dust, grated, ground, imbricated, impalpable, lamellar, lamellate, laminar, lentiginous, lepidote, levigated, mealy, milled, pestled, powdered, powdery, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, reduced to powder, rough, scabby, scabious, scabrous, scobicular, scobiform, scruffy, scurfy, sharded, shingly, shredded, squamous, triturated |