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Scute

//skjuːt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle or the skin of crocodiles.

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

  2. 2
    large bony or horny plate as on an armadillo or turtle or the underside of a snake wordnet
  3. 3
    A proneural gene, often associated with achaete, that is required for the formation of many larval and adult sense organs
  4. 4
    A small shield. obsolete

    "But yet they ouer shote vs Wyth crownes and wyth scutus; With scutis and crownes of gold I drede we are bought and solde; […]"

  5. 5
    An old French gold coin. historical

Etymology

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

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