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  • adjective having the body covered or partially covered with silver-colored scales

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Examples

  • He saw, as all of us saw then, rippling around Master Tall, the transparent outline of a silver-scaled body, the graceful shape of a large silver-scaled dragon's head.

    Father Swarat Matt Dennison 2010

  • The huge, silver-scaled bream he caught from the Thames towpath at Richmond, big as a dinner tray, which had passers-by staring and clicking away with their cameras.

    We're all hooked on fishing now 2010

  • Tom was getting sick of all these pieces of furniture wanting payment and wished that he was home on the farm, even though the farm was full of water and silver-scaled crocodiles.

    Into the mire mikandra 2009

  • Breadalbane in the forests of America, or will the ocean afford you the silver-scaled salmon of the Awe?

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • I tore off the silver-scaled corselet, the horned helmet.

    Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

  • They came into sight -- two of them, huge Norse warriors, their silver-scaled armor flashing in the moonlight.

    People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • Beyond this wreckage lay two large plastic basins, each containing fresh water and a silver-scaled dragon fish, both of them superb specimens, so large their tail fins hung over the lip of the basins and half of their side-turned bodies, gills included, rose above the waterline.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Beyond this wreckage lay two large plastic basins, each containing fresh water and a silver-scaled dragon fish, both of them superb specimens, so large their tail fins hung over the lip of the basins and half of their side-turned bodies, gills included, rose above the waterline.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Beyond this wreckage lay two large plastic basins, each containing fresh water and a silver-scaled dragon fish, both of them superb specimens, so large their tail fins hung over the lip of the basins and half of their side-turned bodies, gills included, rose above the waterline.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Beyond this wreckage lay two large plastic basins, each containing fresh water and a silver-scaled dragon fish, both of them superb specimens, so large their tail fins hung over the lip of the basins and half of their side-turned bodies, gills included, rose above the waterline.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

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