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Definition of Scaled

1. Adjective. Having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles.

2. Adjective. (used of armor) having overlapping metal plates attached to a leather backing.

Definition of Scaled

1. a. Covered with scales, or scalelike structures; -- said of a fish, a reptile, a moth, etc.

Definition of Scaled

1. Verb. (past of scale) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scaled

1. scale [v] - See also: scale

Medical Definition of Scaled

1. 1. Covered with scales, or scalelike structures; said of a fish, a reptile, a moth, etc. 2. Without scales, or with the scales removed; as, scaled herring. 3. Having feathers which in form, colour, or arrangement somewhat resemble scales; as, the scaled dove. Scaled dove, any American dove of the genus Scardafella. Its coloured feather tips resemble scales. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scaled

scale moss scale of measurement scale off scale ruler scale up scale value scale wax scaleability scaleable scaleback

scalebacks scalebeam scalebeams scaleboard scaleboards scaled (current term) scaled question scaled sale scalefree scalelength

scalelengths scaleless scalelike scalemic scalene scalene-triangle scalene hiatus scalene muscle scalene triangle scalene triangles

Literary usage of Scaled

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1906)
"yellow, a dot of white scales at apex of each femur and tibia, bases of first three joints of the hind tarsi white scaled; tarsal claws in both sexes as in ..."

2. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1917)
"Occiput covered with flat, brilliant dark blue scales, margins of eyes narrowly silvery-white; cheeks and head beneath silvery scaled. ..."

3. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington by Entomological Society of Washington (1905)
"Abdomen purple-scaled, front angles of the segments yellow- scaled; venter yellow-scaled and with an apical band of purple ones on the last four segments. ..."

4. Forest Mensuration by Herman Haupt Chapman (1921)
"Comparison of scaled Cubic Contents by Different Log Rules. In Table II is shown the comparative volumes, in per cent of total cubic contents, ..."

5. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"Key to Miscellaneous Genera of Small, Smooth-scaled Serpents I. Pupil of Eye Elliptical. Body stout; head fairly distinct. Ventral plate divided. ..."

6. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"Whereupon their troops scaled, and departed away. ¡bid., p. 630. SCALL, «. A disease in the skin of the head, now termed a scald-head ; the proper origin of ..."

7. American Game-bird Shooting by George Bird Grinnell (1910)
"A black border to each feather warrants the name "scaled. ... The chestnut-bellied scaled partridge has the wings tipped with brown, tail bluish gray, ..."

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