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2 | 51% | 9 | Burrowing mammal covered with strong horny plates | |
3 | 44% | 10 | Their shells consist of bony plates covered with horny scales | |
Of A Body Covered With Thin Horny Plates Crossword Clue
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We think the answer is "SCALED" which means:
- adjective satellite
- • Having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles
- • (used of armor) having overlapping metal plates attached to a leather backing verb
- • To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
- • To climb to the top of.
- • To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
- • To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
- • To remove the scales of.
- • To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
- • To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
- • To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
- • To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
- • To scatter; to spread.
- • To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder. adjective
- • Covered with scales or scale-like structures.
- • Without scales, or with the scales removed.
An example sentence would be:
- • "They scaled the mountain in just a few hours."
- • "The athlete scaled the wall with ease."
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