Rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf.

synonyms: lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scurfy.

Roget 204: lamellar, lamellated^†, lamelliform^†, layered; laminated, laminiferous^†; micaceous^†; schistose, schistous^†; scaly, filmy, membranous, pellicular, flaky, squamous [Anat.]; foliated, foliaceous^†; stratified, stratiform; tabular, discoid; spathic^†, spathose^†.    trilamellar^†.    graphitic^†.    ... show more

Roget 223: covering etc. v.; superimposed, overlaid, plated etc. v.; cutaneous, dermal, cortical, cuticular, tegumentary^†, skinny, scaly, squamous [Anat.]; covered etc. v.; imbricated, loricated^†, armor plated, ironclad; under cover; cowled, cucullate^†, dermatoid^†, encuirassed^†, hooded, squamiferous^†, tectiform^†; vaginate^†.    ... show more

Roget 256: rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted; rugged, rugose^†, rugous^†; knurly^†; asperous^†, crisp, salebrous^†, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth^†, roughhewn^†; craggy, cragged; crankling^†, scraggy; prickly etc. (sharp) 253; arborescent etc. 242^†; leafy, well-wooded; feathery; plumose, plumigerous^†; laciniate^†, laciniform^†, laciniose^†; pappose^†; pileous^†, pilose^†; trichogenous^†, trichoid [Med.]; tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute; crinose^†, crinite^†; bushy, hispid, villous, pappous^†, bearded, pilous^†, shaggy, shagged; fringed, befringed^†; setous^†, setose^†, setaceous; like quills upon the fretful porcupine" [Hamlet]; rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear.    downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly; lanate^†, lanated^†; lanuginous^†, lanuginose^†; tomentose^†; fluffy.    ... show more

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

synonyms: scaled, scaley.

Polish: łuszczasty, łuskowaty, płytkowaty