scabby vs squamoid

scabby

adj
  • Affected with scabs; full of scabs. 

  • Having a blotched, uneven appearance. 

  • Diseased with the scab, or mange; mangy. 

  • Injured by the attachment of barnacles to the carapace of a shell. 

squamoid

adj
  • Covered with scales; scaly. 

  • Resembling a scale. 

How often have the words scabby and squamoid occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )