adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
scaly (= hard and dry, like the skin on animals such as lizards )
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The crocodile’s scaly skin is ideally suited to its way of life.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
skin
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Their warty, slimy and sometimes scaly skins can be almost any colour.
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Symptoms are scaly skin , itching, inflammation and blisters.
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And a scaly skin solves the problem of drying out even in intense heat.
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Only the legs of birds show the tough scaly skin that reflects their reptilian ancestry.
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The scaly skin of reptiles is ideally suited for development into sharply spiked armour.
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Certain lizards take the spiky defence trend a major step further, with long, sharp spines growing out of their scaly skins .
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As Ornithischosus increased in size its scaly skin replaced the bony armour as the danger from predators lessened.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dandruff is characterized by a scaly and sometimes itchy scalp.
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To relieve tight or scaly skin, add a teaspoon of fine oil to your bathwater.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An awareness crept upon him with dank, scaly fingers.
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From the road the Church looked diseased, scaly , malnourished.
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In the Old World they have a counterpart in the form of the strange, scaly anteaters, the pangolins.
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Symptoms are scaly skin, itching, inflammation and blisters.
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That snake, however, in all its wriggling, scaly glory, would never find its way into network fare.
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The fish-heads floated at the top, their scaly jaws agog, eve-sockets empty.
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Their warty, slimy and sometimes scaly skins can be almost any colour.
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This is characterised by a scaly and sometimes itchy scalp, but it shouldn't be red or sore.