Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An arrangement of scales, as on a fish or reptile.
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- noun An arrangement of
scales .
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Examples
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They differ markedly from one another, especially in tail anatomy and in the details of their scalation.
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It may be just that both snakes are green duh – though the mamba is greener and the scalation is striking; I don’t know.
Happy Halloween… 2007
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It may be just that both snakes are green duh – though the mamba is greener and the scalation is striking; I don’t know.
Snakes ‘n bugs 2007
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scalation is futile in a war in which complexity defies might
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009
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