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Scalene :: Scalene (n.) A triangle having its sides and angles unequal.

Lamina :: Lamina (n.) A thin plate or scale; specif., one of the thin, flat processes composing the vane of a feather..

Lodicule :: Lodicule (n.) One of the two or three delicate membranous scales which are next to the stamens in grasses.

Xylophone :: Xylophone (n.) An instrument common among the Russians, Poles, and Tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in length to the musical scale, resting on belts of straw, and struck with two small hammers. Called in Germany strohfiedel, or straw fiddle..

Lamellated :: Lamellated (a.) Composed of, or furnished with, thin plates or scales. See Illust. of Antennae..

Shagreen :: Shagreen (n.) The skin of various small sharks and other fishes when having small, rough, bony scales. The dogfishes of the genus Scyllium furnish a large part of that used in the arts..

Fulcrum :: Fulcrum (n.) One of the small, spiniform scales found on the front edge of the dorsal and caudal fins of many ganoid fishes..

Mixolydian Mode :: Mixolydian mode () The seventh ecclesiastical mode, whose scale commences on G..

Tamarisk :: Tamarisk (n.) Any shrub or tree of the genus Tamarix, the species of which are European and Asiatic. They have minute scalelike leaves, and small flowers in spikes. An Arabian species (T. mannifera) is the source of one kind of manna..

Triple-tail :: Triple-tail (n.) An edible fish (Lobotes Surinamensis) found in the warmer parts of all the oceans, and common on the southern and middle coasts of the United States. When living it is silvery gray, and becomes brown or blackish when dead. Its dorsal and anal fins are long, and extend back on each side of the tail. It has large silvery scales which are used in the manufacture of fancy work. Called also, locally, black perch, grouper, and flasher..

Anethol :: Anethol (n.) A substance obtained from the volatile oils of anise, fennel, etc., in the form of soft shining scales; -- called also anise camphor..

Squamate :: Squamata (n. pl.) A division of edentates having the body covered with large, imbricated horny scales. It includes the pangolins..

Scurf :: Scurf (n.) Minute membranous scales on the surface of some leaves, as in the goosefoot..

Stich :: Sticcado (n.) An instrument consisting of small bars of wood, flat at the bottom and rounded at the top, and resting on the edges of a kind of open box. They are unequal in size, gradually increasing from the smallest to the largest, and are tuned to the diatonic scale. The tones are produced by striking the pieces of wood with hard balls attached to flexible sticks..

Retiped :: Retiped (n.) A bird having small polygonal scales covering the tarsi.

Scutate :: Scutate (a.) Protected or covered by bony or horny plates, or large scales..

Scale-winged :: Scale-winged (a.) Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the Lepidoptera; scaly-winged..

Zero :: Zero (n.) The point from which the graduation of a scale, as of a thermometer, commences..

Snowplough :: Snowplough (n.) An implement operating like a plow, but on a larger scale, for clearing away the snow from roads, railways, etc..

Echometer :: Echometer (n.) A graduated scale for measuring the duration of sounds, and determining their different, and the relation of their intervals..

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