fish scale

1. 1.

   scale of the kind that covers the bodies of fish

   Broaderscale

   Part offish

Questions about fish scale

What does fish scale mean?

fish scale means "scale of the kind that covers the bodies of fish".

Is fish scale a common word?

fish scale is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.