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FISH SCALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fish scale mean? 

FISH SCALE (noun)
  The noun FISH SCALE has 1 sense:

1. scale of the kind that covers the bodies of fishplay

  Familiarity information: FISH SCALE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FISH SCALE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Scale of the kind that covers the bodies of fish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("fish scale" is a kind of...):

scale (a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals)

Holonyms ("fish scale" is a part of...):

fish (any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills)


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