English Explanatory Dictionary

scaleback

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any member of numerous species of marine annelids of the Polynoidae family, with two rows of scale-like elytra along the back
noun
  1. An operation by which something is scaled back or reduced.

Word forms

scaleback scalebacks

Etymology

From scale + back.

Synonyms

scale worm scaledown
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