Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having flat, smooth, or ecarinate scales, as a reptile or a fish.
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Examples
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Cyprinus Bynni (Forsk.), a fish somewhat larger than a barbel with lustrous silvery scales and delicate flesh, which Sonnini believes may be the “Lepidotes” (smooth-scaled) mentioned by
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Wise voices speaking in a language other than that of his smooth-scaled rescuers.
Sliding Scales Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004
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There was a silvery-blue one with long, pointed horns, snapping and snarling at the wizards on the ground; a smooth-scaled green one, which was writhing and stamping with all its might; a red one with an odd fringe of fine gold spikes around its face, which was shooting mushroom-shaped fire clouds into the air; and a gigantic black one, more lizard-hike than the others, which was nearest to them.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Rowling, J. K. 2000
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It was a pleasure to watch her glide along, her waist well under water, laden with corn, wood, straw, or provisions; to see, too, her big brown hull set off with red and blue lines, her prows ornamented with the long smooth-scaled gold-fish, her shining bridge and her little cloud of smoke curling out of the black painted funnel.
Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian Demetrios Vikelas 1871
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Cyprinus Bynni (Forsk.), a fish somewhat larger than a barbel with lustrous silvery scales and delicate flesh, which Sonnini believes may be the "Lepidotes" (smooth-scaled) mentioned by
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Scarlet and smooth-scaled, it has a fringe of golden spikes around its snub-snouted face and extremely protuberant eyes.
unalog 2008
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Z’shezhira thought, struggling to maintain the outward appearance of complete and utter smooth-scaled equanimity.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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Z’shezhira thought, struggling to maintain the outward appearance of complete and utter smooth-scaled equanimity.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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Z’shezhira thought, struggling to maintain the outward appearance of complete and utter smooth-scaled equanimity.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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