squameous

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A, which means the red-fleshed kind of squameous river fish, and so a salmon is a ZaNA.

The Life and Times of John Wilkins Warden of Wadham college, Oxford; master of Trinity college, Cambridge; and Bishop of Chester 1881
In these gloriously inglorious memoirs, the soft and seamy underbelly of that greatest of Victorian epics, The British Empire, is being laid bare, inch by squameous inch.

Royal Flash Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1970