écaille

Definitions of écaille
  1. noun
    a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals
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    types:
    écaille de poisson
    scale of the kind that covers the bodies of fish
    type of:
    couverture, couverture naturelle
    a natural object that covers or envelops
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