What does escama in Spanish mean?

What is the meaning of the word escama in Spanish? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use escama in Spanish.

The word escama in Spanish means scale, flaking skin, flaky skin, scale, fish-scale pattern, flake, scale, put on edge. To learn more, please see the details below.

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Meaning of the word escama

scale

nombre femenino (de pez)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Antes de cocinarlo quítale las escamas al pescado.
Before cooking fish you have to remove the scales.

flaking skin, flaky skin

nombre femenino (de la piel)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Se hizo un tratamiento para quitarse las escamas de la piel.
She got treatment for her flaky skin.

scale

nombre femenino (plantas: hojas pequeñas)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
El tallo de esta planta tiene muchas escamas.
The plant's stem has many scales.

fish-scale pattern

nombre femenino (figurado (con forma de escamas) (clothing)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
El vestido tenía unas escamas doradas.
The dress had gold fish-scale patterns.

flake

nombre femenino (de jabón) (soap)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Para lavar esta prenda, es mejor usar jabón en escamas.
It is best to use soap flakes to wash this garment.

scale

verbo transitivo (animal: quitar las escamas)

(transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.")
No me gusta escamar los pescados: me da mucho fastidio.
I don't like to scale fish because it really bothers me.

put on edge

(ES; coloquial (causar recelo)

(verbal expression: Phrase with special meaning functioning as verb--for example, "put their heads together," "come to an end.")
Aquellos dos chavales tienen una pinta que me escama. —¿Esto que dice aquí tu padre no te escama?

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