platelike

• Adjectif désuet signifiant qui ressemble à une assiette ou qui a une forme plate et arrondie, semblable à une plaque ou à un disque.

An obsolete adjective meaning resembling a plate or having a flat, plate-like form.

1. Resembling a plateC1formal

   Having a flat, broad, and often rigid shape similar to a plate, such as the hard, flattened scales found on certain animals like sharks.

   Qui ressemble à une plaque

   • The shark's skin is covered in platelike scales called dermal denticles.
   • The fossil showed a platelike structure on the creature's back.
   • The armor was made of platelike segments for protection.

   Synonymesdiscoidlaminarplacoidplatytabular