They describe the colour, shape, and size of the buds, and also their gummy and scalelike covering.
"Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study"
Ontario Ministry of Education
Like many others of the scale bugs, the cochineal males have wings and are not so scalelike as their helpless mates.
"The Insect Folk"
Margaret Warner Morley
The younger parts of the tree were clothed with stiff needle-shaped leaves, but elsewhere the trunk and branches were marked with scalelike scars, left by the fallen leaves, and arranged in spiral rows.
"The Elements of Geology"
William Harmon Norton