scale

中文： 鳞

1. Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile. (countable, uncountable)
2. A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color. (countable, uncountable)
3. A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis. (countable, uncountable)
4. Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds. (countable, uncountable)
5. The flaky material sloughed off heated metal. (uncountable)
6. Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail). (countable, uncountable)
7. Limescale. (uncountable)
8. A scale insect. (countable, uncountable)

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