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Sentence Examples
| Vidal and Hedges collected and analyzed the largest genetic data set ever assembled for the scaly reptiles known as squamates. |
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| It causes large red or purple patches on your skin, with scaly skin on top of them. |
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| Healed burns will be sensitive and have dry scaly skin, which may develop pigmental changes. |
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| This lesion presents as an annular plaque with a slightly raised and often scaly, advancing border and is commonly known as ringworm. |
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| If dry, scaly legs have you running for cover, kick up your moisturizing regimen with a three-tiered attack. |
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| The borders represent the active edge of the lesion and may be raised or scaly. |
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| We have heard from several readers that regular use of this spice seems to help control the itchy, scaly skin associated with psoriasis. |
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| Dry skin and scratching may result in a dermatitis when the skin becomes red in addition to dry and scaly. |
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| Cracked or scaly skin is unable to serve as an effective barrier against disease. |
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| Some are red, scaly and itchy, whereas others can produce a fine scale similar to dry skin. |
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| It appears as nodules or as red or pink scaly patches, typically on the rim of the ear, lips, mouth or face, that can develop into large masses. |
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| Alternatively they may climb trees in search of tree ants, as do the pangolins or scaly anteaters of the genus Manis. |
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| Visiting the sanctuary's Operations Centre, we learn about programs to protect other indigenous species, such as sea turtles and scaly anteaters. |
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| Reptiles are cold blooded scaly creatures like snakes, lizards, crocodiles and turtles, who are all descendants of the primitive reptile. |
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| It may be found on any part of the body as a scaly and crusted patch from a few millimeters to many centimeters in diameter. |
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| Hansen's disease can mimic tinea corporis by presenting as one or more annular, sometimes scaly, plaques. |
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| The fruit is shaped like but smaller than a pear, and has a shiny brown scaly skin. |
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| Artistic images of snakelike forms capture the scaly, slithering, writhing shapes of snakes as they move over the ground or swim in water. |
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| Terminal buds bear imbricate, scaly buds except in the bitternut hickory which has valvate or foliate buds. |
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| In addition, they have four or five scaly leaves with lateral buds on their epicotyl. |
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| The penultimate floor is given over to a circular exhibition hall clad in a scaly copper skin. |
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| The symptoms of eczema can include red, itchy skin, rash, blisters or bumps that itch and ooze, or scaly, brownish, thick skin. |
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| The monster that had once been our friend transformed himself into a huge scaly beast, covered in dripping ooze. |
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| Certainly, the cassowary's clawed wings, scaly legs, featherless heads, wrinkled necks, and large size give them a dinosaur-like appearance. |
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| She was grabbed again from behind and this time a big, scaly, clawed hand was clapped over her mouth. |
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| Harsh changes in climatic conditions tend to dehydrate the skin, leaving it dry and quite often scaly. |
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| Conifer cones, cone scales, cone seeds, and tiny scaly conifer stems are found at a number of short-shoot sites. |
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| Ringworm of the scalp may start as a small sore that resembles a pimple before becoming patchy, flaky, or scaly. |
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| Seborrheic dermatitis usually causes the skin to look a little greasy, and scaly or flaky. |
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| The table is covered with dismantled scaly things, things sliced and jellied, cross-sectioned things that squirmed the bottom of the sea. |
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| You are invited to come along to this special event and to bring your furred, feathered or scaly friends. |
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| A wicked gleam appeared in his eyes and his hands instantly became scaly and hard. |
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| They were short, about half the height of an average human, and walked hunched over with scaly skin and strands of greasy wispy hair. |
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| Seborrheic dermatitis causes scaly erythematous skin lesions most often found in nasolabial folds and eyebrow areas. |
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| This new fossil suggests that these dinosaurs may not have had scaly, reptile-like skin, but perhaps had a softer, downy coat. |
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| In place of the scaly discs there remained clear blotches of an achromic appearance. |
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| Hand eczema can redden and crack hands, covering them with itchy, scaly patches. |
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| I think its time to start chopping up the garnish because bowls full of hot, scaly, green broth are ready to be ladled out. |
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| The yapok is a long-legged opossum with a relatively broad snout, and a long, almost hairless, scaly tail except at its base. |
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| Inland saltgrass is a native, perennial, warm-season, sod-forming short grass with vigorous, creeping, scaly underground stems. |
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| Most had badly scabbed and scaly feet and ankles due to a lack of clean water, proper bathing facilities or shoes. |
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| Salamanders have a smooth, moist skin which distinguishes them from lizards, which have a dry scaly skin. |
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| The staircase is flanked on both sides by the scaly snake-like bodies of the nagas, whose fierce multiple heads form the banisters' bottoms. |
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| Purple scales began at his waist and covered his lower body, which ended in the scaly tail of a snake. |
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| Their riders, scaly humanoid creatures with reptilian features, watched the trees for any sign of moments. |
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| They are perfectly ugly, perfectly cute, mini-dinosaurs, from their scaly heads to the tips of their thrashing tails. |
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| As she stepped closer, the intelligent reptilian head and glittering scaly body became apparent. |
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| The creature before her came sinuously forward up out of the ditch, folding its wings back to its scaly sides, so incredibly intent. |
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| The girl was visiting relatives in Manchester and it did not occur to her to travel without her scaly friend. |
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| Its skin was a nasty shade of brown, covered in visible bumps and scars, even scaly. |
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| The creature, however, turns out to be a scaly sweetie-pie, who falls in love with her. |
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| I shear away the scaly skin from the fish, trying to keep as much of it intact as I possibly can, but the membrane under the scales is fragile. |
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| They sound like they're describing alien demons with cloven hooves and scaly talons. |
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| National Pet Week is all about keeping our furry, feathered and scaly friends in the rudest possible health. |
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| That's why poor intake of almost any B vitamin can cause dry or scaly skin. |
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| Psoriasis is a dry, scaly skin condition in which skin cells are reproduced too quickly. |
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| Oh, and a pumice stone for scaly feet, if they were really conscientious. |
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| A scaly lizard-like creature with gigantesque leathery bat-like wings and, scaly, ridged skin, with an abnormal and slightly captivating black luster. |
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| We waded back to shore and had a good look at my gilled and scaly catch. |
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| Analysis of these fossils showed the ancient creature to be a small mammal, possibly distantly related to the modern scaly anteater known as the pangolin. |
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| In contrast with the Xenarthra, the Old World Pholidota is not trophically diverse and contains only the myrmecophagous pangolins, or scaly anteaters. |
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| They would have resembled a bison if not for their scaly skin. |
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| That is, except for a handful of more primitive serpents such as boas and pythons, whose vestigial femurs protrude from their scaly underbellies like stunted pincers. |
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| As though he was a snake shedding its old skin to make room for the new, Ian's human skin began to peal off of him as a scaly, dark green skin took its place. |
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| Sometimes she has a shield, more often the aegis, a scaly capelike covering with fringe of snakes, usually with the gorgon's head, the gorgoneion, to relieve its plainness. |
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| The rash has small and scaly white, pink, tan or dark spots. |
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| The dragon is bodiless yet has scaly hands creeping upwards. |
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| These aren't just large arms, they're large arms with dry, scaly skin, with horrible armpits, with huge flabby bingo wings flapping about underneath the upper arms. |
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| All I got was a red scaly scalp and the hair shedding continued. |
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| Viridian enquires as she pats the dragon's thick, scaly neck. |
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| Instead of scaly skin, most had smooth, soft, and most of all furry skin. |
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| They had light-green scaly heads, necks, and powerful looking tails. |
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| Usually, guttate psoriasis must be differentiated from pityriasis rosea, another condition characterized by the sudden outbreak of red scaly lesions. |
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| Observers have seen spiny lobsters scrape their leathery plectra across scaly ridges below their eyes. |
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| The bark is thin, scaly brown, coming off in small flakes aligned with the stem. |
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| The bark of most pines is thick and scaly, but some species have thin, flaky bark. |
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| I've arrowed a variety of rough fish in situations that are as different as the scaly targets themselves. |
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| Other show-stopper head-pieces include hats in cat-teeth, tiny antelope horns or scaly anteater and leopard-skin. |
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| Dogs with scaly skin due to seborrhea often benefit from the addition of fat to their diets. |
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| Other sun-damaged red scaly patches called solar keratoses or Bowen's disease can also mimic these skin cancers. |
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| As his black, naily fingers dug loose the scaly pig's skin, wandering tears came to the bo'sun 's eyes. |
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| In comparison to field crickets, ground crickets, and tree crickets, the acoustics and behavior of scaly crickets have received little attention. |
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| Adults may get a less itchy form called nummular eczema, which tends to be scaly, coin-shaped spots on the arms and legs. |
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| Cradle cap is the name given to the yellowish, greasy, scaly patches that appear on the scalps of young babies. |
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| A 68-year-old woman presented with a scaly verruciform plaque on the chin that had been present for 10 to 15 years. |
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| If the toes are abnormal and the patient has onychomycosis, there is a high likelihood that a scaly rash on the lower legs could be a dermatophyte infection. |
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| The drink, officially called yaqona but known all over Fiji as grog, is so strong that heavy drinkers develop scaly skin, can't work and in some cases can't walk. |
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| Seek medical advice if any skin lesion gets bigger, turns darker, goes scaly, itches, weeps, crusts over, develops a raised, rolled edge or ulcerates. |
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| The first sign is mild itchiness of the skin, just above the ankle, which then becomes speckled, scaly, inflamed and itchy and I lesions may develop. |
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| The Naked sand darter, Scaly sand darter, Firebelly darter, Blue sucker, Bigmouth sucker, Plains minnow, and Northern madtom are among the rare nongame fish in the Region. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| The scaly hairs, or ramenta, which clothe every part of the plant, are also like those of Ferns. |
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| The jaws, the uneven lobate disk of the preoperculum and the branchiostegous membrane are naked, the rest of them being scaly. |
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| The pappus in this genus is very short, and it is scaly rather than feathery. |
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| His tail was long and scaly and pointed, and his forelegs were large and warty. |
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| The scaly hairless head beneath the centaurian's white globe device bore a face that was blankly hideous. |
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| The fence lizard, a scaly alligator looking chap, is just as useful but never gets tame. |
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| The stem is cylindrical or slightly tapering above, hollow or stuffed, floccose scaly and abruptly bulbous below. |
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| It has the same nodose and scaly root-stock, dark and polished stalk, glaucescent frond and mucronulate pinnules. |
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| This is a scaly disease affecting the head, and giving rise to the formation of the small troublesome particles known as scurf. |
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| The bark of the trunk is thick, dark reddish brown, shallowly fissured between scaly ridges. |
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| The pileus is thin, umbilicate or with the center darker, the surface hairy or scaly, and the margin at first incurved. |
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| They split and coalesced into other creatures, and to the drummings of spheric harmonies resolved themselves scaly and monstrous. |
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| Jim West thought things looked scaly, but he warn't agoin' to backslide arter he'd got so fur. |
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| How is ichthyosis to be distinguished from eczema, psoriasis, and other scaly inflammatory diseases? |
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| The stem is equal or slightly enlarged above, stuffed, luteous, minutely scaly. |
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| If mica is a prominent element, the metamorphic rock is easily parted into overlapping, scaly layers. |
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| The Armed-Fish has its name from its arms, and its scaly mail. |
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| The stem is solid, slender, scaly, somewhat lighter than the pileus. |
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| The stem is inclined to be scaly, thickened at the base, solid. |
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| Large tree with orange-yellow winter buds, and firm, not scaly, bark. |
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| It has strong claws and a scaly skin, impenetrable upon the back. |
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| Their imports included monkeys, giant scaly anteaters, snake and lizard skins, tiger and leopard meat. |
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| The skin is scaly or scabby, sometimes appearing like a large seed-wart. |
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| The stem is quite short, tapering downward, dark green, scaly. |
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| The stems may not be scaly at the apex, often rosy when young. |
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| The scaly flesh of his head and face was dissolving like melting butter. |
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| O insatiate brute, and most disgusting, brazen, and scaly reptile! |
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| In the sluggish, dry, erythematous, scaly and papular types. |
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| The uncovered part had the appearance of a huge cylinder, caked over and its outline softened by a thick scaly dun-coloured incrustation. |
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| The legs of the fowls, too, are longer than could be desired, and extremely scaly. |
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| The bark varies from dark red to gray and is shallowly fissured or scaly. |
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| In ichthyosis, lepra, psoriasis, and some other scaly skin diseases. |
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| Trees, with close or scaly bark, odd-pinnate leaves and serrate leaflets. |
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| It is distinguished by its waviness and the scaly covering of the fibers. |
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| Serpents are also scaly, and, excepting the viper, oviparous. |
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| We saw many small animals, such as porcupines, a scaly ant-eater, and a wild pig, piebald in color and with long curved tusks. |
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| Atopic dermatitis, commonly referred to as eczema, is a chronic skin disorder characterized by scaly and itchy rashes. |
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| It has an opposable hallux and a non-hairy, but scaly, tail. |
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| Unlike humans, who constantly shed worn-out skin as tiny flakes, snakes and lizards periodically molt, or shed the outermost layer of their scaly skin all at once. |
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| Traditionally, emollient creams are used to treat dry, scaly, or itchy skin that results from skin disorders such as eczema, contact dermatitis, and psoriasis. |
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| Their skin had a frightful scaly appearance, which, united with its singular colour, made their limbs not a little resemble dusty specimens of verde-antique. |
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| On the dull, scaly, slate-colored skin somewhere above the shoulder, there was a singular black circle of some substance which looked like asphalt. |
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| As I went along the road back to the bridge, I kept picking off little pieces of scaly chalk from the dried water gullies, and breaking them up in my hands. |
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