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fish scale

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Noun1.fish scale - scale of the kind that covers the bodies of fishfish scale - scale of the kind that covers the bodies of fish
scale - a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals
fish - any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills; "the shark is a large fish"; "in the living room there was a tank of colorful fish"


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Bowfishing--while great fun--is a nasty, sloppy, dirty sport; what with the knee-deep water, mud, bloody, flopping skewered fish, leeches, biting insects and fish scales.
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