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scaled¹

adjective

1Covered with or made up of scales or overlapping plates resembling scales.
‘the specimen preserves scaled skin around the tail’
in combination ‘small-scaled fish’
- ‘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.’
- ‘There are studies on the vasculature of the scaled integument of lizards and snakes.’
- ‘The next larger complete specimen is thinly but fully scaled with weakly ossified skull bones and may be classified as a juvenile.’
- ‘The male has a scaled belly, black chin, and a big, black topknot sticking out of the top of his head.’
- ‘This quail has scaled underparts and brown sides.’
- ‘Kelpfishes, klipfishes, and scaled blennies are among the threatened species.’
- ‘An inversion line is conspicuous at the base of the scaled lobe of the caudal fin.’
- ‘It has a light breast with scaled patterning, white streaks along brown sides, and black and grey scaling on the nape of the neck.’
- ‘Juveniles are light brownish-grey with lightly streaked breasts and scaled backs.’
1. 1.1 (of an insect wing) covered with numerous microscopic tile-like structures.
  ‘mosquitoes have a pair of scaled wings’
  ‘Both orders produce flying insects with scaled wings.’
  ‘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.’
  ‘The aerodynamic forces generated by rigid and flexible geometrically scaled hawkmoth wings were measured.’
  ‘The model was used to simulate scaled fruit-fly wings in hover.’
  ‘The experimental investigations used rigid scaled insect wings to study kinematics.’
  ‘The four types of wings that exist among insects are membranous, scaled, leather-like, and horny.’
  ‘These two types of insects belong to the order Lepidoptera, which means 'scaled wings'.’
  ‘We will focus on 'complete' metamorphosis, the system promulgated by the order of the scaled wings.’
  ‘The wings of Lepidoptera are minutely scaled, which feature gives the name to this order.’