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Tarpum :: Tarpum (n.) A very large marine fish (Megapolis Atlanticus) of the Southern United States and the West Indies. It often becomes six or more feet in length, and has large silvery scales. The scales are a staple article of trade, and are used in fancywork. Called also tarpon, sabalo, savanilla, silverfish, and jewfish..

Exfoliate :: Exfoliate (v. i.) To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales at the result of heat or decomposition..

Squamiform :: Squamellate (a.) Furnished or covered with little scales; squamulose.

Lumpfish :: Lumpfish (n.) A large, thick, clumsy, marine fish (Cyclopterus lumpus) of Europe and America. The color is usually translucent sea green, sometimes purplish. It has a dorsal row of spiny tubercles, and three rows on each side, but has no scales. The ventral fins unite and form a ventral sucker for adhesion to stones and seaweeds. Called also lumpsucker, cock-paddle, sea owl..

Reptilia :: Reptilia (n. pl.) A class of air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as that of birds..

Celsius :: Celsius (n.) The Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the centigrade thermometer or scale..

Lamelliform :: Lamelliform (a.) Thin and flat; scalelike; lamellar.

Scutellation :: Scutellation (n.) the entire covering, or mode of arrangement, of scales, as on the legs and feet of a bird..

Ctenoid :: Ctenoid (a.) Having a comblike margin, as a ctenoid scale.

Supereminence :: Superdominant (n.) The sixth tone of the scale; that next above the dominant; -- called also submediant.

Broom Rape :: Broom rape () A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. The name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus, as Aphyllon uniflorumand A. Ludovicianum..

Pearlfish :: Pearlfish (n.) Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait..

Scincoidian :: Scincoidian (n.) Any one of numerous species of lizards of the family Scincidae or tribe Scincoidea. The tongue is not extensile. The body and tail are covered with overlapping scales, and the toes are margined. See Illust. under Skink..

Nill :: Nill (n.) Scales of hot iron from the forge.

Scalebeam :: Scalebeam (n.) A weighing apparatus with a sliding weight, resembling a steelyard..

Wolf :: Wolf (a.) In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale..

Ichnography :: Ichnography (n.) A horizontal section of a building or other object, showing its true dimensions according to a geometric scale; a ground plan; a map; also, the art of making such plans..

Intranscalent :: Intranscalent (a.) Impervious to heat; adiathermic.

Shive :: Shive (n.) A thin piece or fragment; specifically, one of the scales or pieces of the woody part of flax removed by the operation of breaking..

D :: D () The nominal of the second tone in the model major scale (that in C), or of the fourth tone in the relative minor scale of C (that in A minor), or of the key tone in the relative minor of F..

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