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Adjective: squamous  skwey-mus
  1. (zoology) having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles
    - scaly, scaley, scaled

See also: armored [US], armoured [Brit, Cdn]

Encyclopedia: Squamous

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