Sentence examples for thick scales from inspiring English sources

These rather thick scales, present in some primitive bony fishes, are well developed in the gars.

Primitive bony fishes had thick scales of either the ganoid or the cosmoid type.

Its legs have thick scales to protect the bird from snakebite.

Primitive fishes usually had thick bony plates or thick scales in several layers of bone, enamel, and related substances.

Sure, it sports thick scales and bulging bony knobs called osteoderms rather than fur, and 80 teeth to the house cat's 30, and a tail that, as Dr. Soares learned from personal experience, can dislocate your jaw with a single whack.

The species Neoceratodus forsteri has large fleshy fins and thick scales.

The investigation has indicated that the failure attributed to the formation of thick scale of magnetite at the inner surface of the tube wall.

At that time, alopecia, thick scaling, and excoriations were observed on ear margins, sides of the head, and between the eyes.

Hot olive-oil turbans also help remove very thick scaling.

The drawings of the two cones represent the variation in scale thickness from thinner scales on the left to thicker scales on the right.

The oxide scale developed on as-polished β-NiAl consisted of the islands of 390 nm-thick flat regions (e.g., patches) in 916 nm-thick scales.