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  *鳞* | 鳞* | *鳞
scales (of fish, snakes etc)
(idiom) covered all over with cuts and bruises; beaten black and blue
row upon row
scale (of fish, reptiles etc)
scaly / squamous
fish scales
scale / plate of armor
bulb
cuts and bruises like fish scales / terribly cut up
lit. a dragon's scale from the east and a dragon's claw from the west / odds and ends (idiom)
lit. one scale and half a claw (idiom) / fig. only odd bits and pieces
scaly wing / Lepidoptera (insect order including butterflies 蝶類|蝶类 and moths 蛾類|蛾类)
king salmon / Chinook salmon
(bird species of China) pygmy cupwing; pygmy wren-babbler (Pnoepyga pusilla)
(bird species of China) streak-throated woodpecker (Picus xanthopygaeus)
squamous cell carcinoma
Lepidoptera (insect order including butterflies 蝶類|蝶类 and moths 蛾類|蛾类)
(bird species of China) scaly-breasted cupwing; scaly-breasted wren-babbler (Pnoepyga albiventer)
(bird species of China) scaly-bellied woodpecker (Picus squamatus)


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