Examples of 'scale-like' in a sentence
Meaning of "scale-like"
scale-like (adjective) - having a covering or appearance similar to scales, often used to describe patterns or textures in nature
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The leaves are rudimentary and scale-like.
Four prominent scale-like nectaries surround the ovary.
If there is any pappus it is small and scale-like.
The inflorescences are covered by scale-like structures known as bracts.
Claws should be covered with something scale-like.
It has glandular scale-like leaves along its surface.
The lower leaves are smaller and scale-like.
It is covered with scale-like leaves, reduced as they do not perform photosynthesis.
Its wings are covered with little scale-like things.
Some plants have only scale-like leaves and appear leafless at first glance.
The stem is coated with spirals of scale-like leaves.
The scale-like leaves are along the striped peduncle with a raceme-like inflorescence.
Another meaning is related to the small scale-like fruit.
The flowers are surrounded by scale-like bracts which remain during flowering.
The long hairs that grow from a scale-like.
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This is followed by an ascending scale-like figure, filling in the same interval.
It is closed off from most organisms by the ostiole, fringed by scale-like bracts.
The scale-like nymphs pass through five larval stages before moulting to the adult.
The thin bark often peels with scale-like plates.
Mites forms scale-like galls on twigs retarding growth and reducing the fruit crop.
The females only have two scale-like wing vestiges.
Each successive row of lei material is overlapped on the previous to create a scale-like effect.
Scales secrete a characteristic waxy or scale-like covering over their bodies.
Squamous epithelium has cells that are wider than their height flat and scale-like.
The legs are short and covered in scale-like scutes and the feet have well-developed claws.
The trio has a part similar to the second third with a chromatic scale-like sound.
The stem leaves are scale-like and overlapping;the bracts are shorter than the flowers.
Natural bristles are always irregular in shape along their length, and have scale-like outer surfaces.
These likely represent the scale-like tubercles that would have covered the underside of the animal.
The leaves are evergreen and scale-like.
The leaves are reduced to scale-like structures lacking chlorophyll, pressed against and sheathing the stems.
Rarely are they branched or scale-like.
Its wings are covered with little scale-like things . They actually break up the light rays.
The nails of the hands are scale-like.
Bracts are scale-like and inconspicuous.
The tubercles are scale-like.
The leaves are scale-like up to 5 mm long on strong lead shoots.
Their wing-coverts are tipped white, creating a scale-like pattern.
The thickest, scale-like leaves on coning branches are in the upper crown.
Pertains to cone-bearing trees with needles or scale-like leaves.
Rather than using scale-like markings, colored bands may be utilized.
The leaves are alternate, but having no use, are reduced and scale-like.
I mean, silvery scale-like bits of glass that keep the city at bay.
Sliced fruit is to be placed on the shelves in a scale-like pattern, not flat.
The scale-like surface material is found only in Qin-dynasty artifacts.
They were flattened against each other ( appressed ) and scale-like imbricate.
The scale-like surface material is found only in Qin-dynasty artefacts.
There are one to three small, scale-like leaves higher up the stem.
The young leaves are needle-like, while the broader adult leaves are triangular and scale-like.
The epidermis is mostly made up of flat, scale-like cells called squamous cells.
