(zoology) Covered with scales or scale-like structures. / Without scales, or with the scales removed.

A hunter of wildfowl.

(preceded by definite article) A medieval instrument of torture consisting of an iron frame that encased the leg and was then heated.

(astronomy, physics) Either of two torus-shaped areas of high-energy charged particles which partly surround Earth, trapped by its magnetic field. The areas are characterised by intense radiation. ...