Sentence examples for slimy scales from inspiring English sources
The day's international fish trading has just begun, and buyers are milling about in bright yellow rubber boots, running slimy scales between their fingers, as hobbling cats nibble at the fishbones and guts strewn across the pavement.
The wide diversity of integuments among vertebrates further exemplifies the adaptive character of the body covering: from the almost impenetrable shield of an armadillo and the dense furry coat of an Arctic bear to the slimy, scaled covering of a cod and the exceptionally smooth skin of a porpoise.
The discovery began with a one-liter bucket of slimy fish scales and skin.
Slipmouth, also called ponyfishes or slimys, any of certain fishes (order Perciformes) that are characterized by slimy bodies with small scales and greatly protrusible mouths.
No fish is really something you'd ever want to pick up and hug; they have scales, and can be slimy.
A mushroom can be identified by such factors as the color, the shape of the cap, the way the cap feels to the touch (damp, dry, sticky, or slimy), and the presence on the cap of hairs or scales or radial lines.
Other characteristic features include a slimy stem up to 12 cm long that is spotted with ragged scales up to a ring-like zone.
Horrid slimy things, mushrooms.
