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scaled /skeɪld /adjective1Covered with or made up of scales or overlapping plates resembling scales: the specimen preserves scaled skin around the tail [in combination]: small-scaled fish...- Kelpfishes, klipfishes, and scaled blennies are among the threatened species.
- It has fully scaled cheeks and gill covers, and the top of the head has few or no scales.
- These blennies are cryptically colored or transparent, heavily scaled, and small.
1.1(Of an insect wing) covered with numerous microscopic tile-like structures: mosquitoes have a pair of scaled wings...- The wings of Lepidoptera are minutely scaled, which feature gives the name to this order.
- They are gaudy diurnal insects with scaled wings that are large in proportion to body.
- The butterfly's scaled wings are different from the wings of any other insect.
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