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scutum
  1. (historical, Roman antiquity) An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; carried chiefly by the heavy-armed infantry of the Roman army.
  2. (zoology) A scute.
  3. (zoology) In many contexts a shield-like protection, such as the scutum protecting the back of a hard tick
  4. (zoology) One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.
  5. (obsolete) A penthouse or awning.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “B expression is activated by Wg in the scutum whereas B represses Wg expression in the most anterior part of the notum.”
      “And as four virgates went usually to each hide, so each virgate should contribute 116 of a scutum.”
      “The scutum and tergum, with the few exceptions above stated, are articulated together at a large or open angle.”
scute
  1. (obsolete) A small shield.
  2. (historical) An old French gold coin.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Their shells seemed to glow, each scute deep gold, hexagonal, in a dark-brown frame.”
      “As they describe in Biology Letters, they analyzed samples of scute — the hard substance that protects the turtles' bony shells.”
      “This spear, called the gular scute, had once put someone in mind of a plow.”
scutellum
  1. Any of several shield-shaped structures in insects, grasses etc
    1. (lichenology) A rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens.
    2. (zoology) The third of the four pieces forming the upper part of a thoracic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the small postscutellum.
    3. (zoology) One of the transverse scales on the tarsi and toes of birds.
  2. Examples:
    1. “This reward-lacking orchid is pollinated either by workers or drones of Apis cerana japonica which fix pollinaria on the scutellum.”
      “In all these species, the broad arcuate viscidium firmly embraces the pollinator scutellum when the insect leaves the flower.”
      “An aspartic proteinase was also found in the PB of scutellum cells in dry barley grains.”
scutella
  1. plural of scutellum
  2. Examples:
    1. “Transport of peptides and amino acids has been demonstrated in scutella isolated from barley, wheat, rice, and maize.”
      “First-strand cDNA was synthesized with an oligo primer from total RNA extracted from scutella of germinating seeds.”
      “Examples of such conflicts using tax microsimulation models are given by Decoster and Ooge and Creedy and Scutella.”
scutella
  1. A scutellum.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Transport of peptides and amino acids has been demonstrated in scutella isolated from barley, wheat, rice, and maize.”
      “First-strand cDNA was synthesized with an oligo primer from total RNA extracted from scutella of germinating seeds.”
      “Examples of such conflicts using tax microsimulation models are given by Decoster and Ooge and Creedy and Scutella.”
scuta
  1. A scutum.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Unfortunately the differences are not very great between the scuta of the different species.”
      “The scuta are coloured either dull-purple or reddish, or striped longitudinally white and blue.”
      “Operculum, or opercular valves.These consist of a pair of scuta and a pair of terga.”
scutellae
  1. plural of scutella
scutes
  1. plural of scute
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Turtle shells are constructed with a layer of epidermal scutes overlying a layer of dermal bone.”
      “The top of the head is always covered by a shield of keratin-covered scutes, and the tail is covered by bony rings.”
      “Sturgeon species are noted by a spindle-shaped body with five rows of bony scutes and a long snout with sensory barbels.”
scutae
  1. plural of scuta
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