Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A keratinous, chitinous, or bony external plate, as on the shell of a turtle or the underside of a snake.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of scout.
  • noun A shield or buckler; also, a heraldic shield; an escutcheon.
  • noun An old French gold coin, of the value of 3s. 4d. sterling, or 80 cents.
  • noun In zoology, a scutum or scutellum, in any sense; a squama; a large scale; a shield, plate, or buckler: as, the dermal scutes of a ganoid fish, a turtle, an armadillo, a scaly ant-eater, etc. See cuts under carapace and Acipenser.
  • noun In anatomy, a semilunar plate of bone forming the outer portion of the roof of the tympanum of the ear. Also called scutum tympanicum.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A small shield.
  • noun An old French gold coin of the value of 3s. 4d. sterling, or about 80 cents.
  • noun (Zoöl.) A bony scale of a reptile or fish; a large horny scale on the leg of a bird, or on the belly of a snake.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun biology A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle or the skin of crocodiles.
  • noun genetics A proneural gene, often associated with achaete, that is required for the formation of many larval and adult sense organs
  • noun obsolete A small shield.
  • noun historical An old French gold coin.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun large bony or horny plate as on an armadillo or turtle or the underside of a snake

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Latin scūtum, shield; see scutum.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin scutum ("shield")

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  • So cute!

    November 11, 2008