"scalelike" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From scale + -like.",
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    {
      "form": "more scalelike",
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      "form": "most scalelike",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1988 January 8, Kitry Krause, “On Exhibit: a menagerie of microscopic monsters”, in Chicago Reader:",
          "text": "Below these antennae, a rounded flap hangs over all you can see of its bloodsucking stinger, a buckled straw apparently supported by a channel that is thick with scalelike excrescences.",
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        "Resembling scales in shape or form"
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          "scale"
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        {
          "word": "squamiform"
        },
        {
          "word": "squamoid"
        },
        {
          "word": "scale-like"
        }
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  "word": "scalelike"
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    {
      "form": "more scalelike",
      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "form": "most scalelike",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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  "pos": "adj",
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    {
      "word": "squamiform"
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    {
      "word": "squamoid"
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      "word": "scale-like"
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  "word": "scalelike"
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