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Leprose

Covered with thin, scurfy scales.

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Rough 84% connected

Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth.

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Rough 84% connected

Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth.

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Lepidote 92% connected

Alt. of Lepidoted

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Scabrous 92% connected

Rough to the touch, like a file; having small raised dots, scales, or points; scabby; scurfy; scaly.

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Scaly 92% connected

Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish.

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Scurfy 92% connected

Having or producing scurf; covered with scurf; resembling scurf.

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Artichoke noun · 78% connection

The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The head (to which the…

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Cycloidei n. pl. · 78% connection

An order of fishes, formerly proposed by Agassiz, for those with thin, smooth scales, destitute of marginal spines, as the herring and…

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Escaloped adjective · 78% connection

Covered with a pattern resembling a series of escalop shells, each of which issues from between two others. Its appearance is that of…

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Exfoliate verb · 78% connection

To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales at the result of heat or decomposition.

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Furfuraceous adjective · 78% connection

Made of bran; like bran; scurfy.

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Ganoidei n. pl. · 78% connection

One of the subclasses of fishes. They have an arterial cone and bulb, spiral intestinal valve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasm…

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Imbricated adjective · 78% connection

Lying over each other in regular order, so as to "break joints," like tiles or shingles on a roof, the scales on the leaf buds of plan…

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Lamella noun · 78% connection

a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of…

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Lamellarly adverb · 78% connection

In thin plates or scales.

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Lamellated adjective · 78% connection

Composed of, or furnished with, thin plates or scales. See Illust. of Antennae.

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Lamelliferous adjective · 78% connection

Bearing, or composed of, lamellae, or thin layers, plates, or scales; foliated.

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Laminate adjective · 78% connection

Consisting of, or covered with, laminae, or thin plates, scales, or layers, one over another; laminated.

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Laminating adjective · 78% connection

Forming, or separating into, scales or thin layers.

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Lentiginous adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to lentigo; freckly; scurfy; furfuraceous.

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Lepidoted adjective · 78% connection

Having a coat of scurfy scales, as the leaves of the oleaster.

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Malanders n. pl. · 78% connection

A scurfy eruption in the bend of the knee of the fore leg of a horse. See Sallenders.

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Morphew noun · 78% connection

A scurfy eruption.

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Pellicularia filamentosa noun · 78% connection

fungus causing a disease in potatoes characterized by black scurfy spots on the tubers

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