Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
The scaly yellowfish (Labeobarbus natalensis).
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryCovered or abounding with scales. · Composed of scales lying over each other. · Resembling scales, laminae, or layers. · low, mean.
From Middle English scali, skaly. By surface analysis, scale + -y.
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