scute

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/skjuːt/

Definition of scute

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noun

A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle, the skin of crocodiles, or the feet and legs of birds.

“Then one afternoon, as he's stripping the scutes and hide from a shortnose sturgeon, an idea hits him.”

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noun

A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle, the skin of crocodiles, or the feet and legs of birds.

“Then one afternoon, as he's stripping the scutes and hide from a shortnose sturgeon, an idea hits him.”
A proneural gene, often associated with achaete, that is required for the formation of many larval and adult sense organs
(obsolete)A small shield.

“But yet they ouer shote vs Wyth crownes and wyth scutus; With scutis and crownes of gold I drede we are bought and solde; […]”
(historical)An old French gold coin.

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Borrowed from Latin scutum (“shield”). Compare scutum, escudo, scudo, and écu.

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