scaly

Even bullets will fly off from any other part of the scaly covering as though they had struck against a stone wall.

Its scaly body wound about her boot, the flat head swaying from side to side, was a huge rattlesnake.

Some have, indeed, confounded the scaly lizards of the East Indies with the armadillos of America.

The tail was covered with hair for two or three inches from the beginning, and the rest of it with a smooth scaly skin to the end.

Indeed, you could as little get hold of Chopin as, to use L. Enault's expression, of the scaly back of a siren.