Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Zoology Covered with overlapping bony plates or scales.
- adjective Biology Shaped like a shield or platter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In zoology
- Provided with scutella; scutate; squamate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Formed like a plate or salver; composed of platelike surfaces.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having the tarsi covered with broad transverse scales, or scutella; -- said of certain birds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany
saucer -shaped - adjective zoology Having the
tarsi covered with broadtransverse scales , orscutella , as in certainbirds .
Etymologies
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Latin scutella ("a dish, salver"). Compare English scuttle ("a basket").
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Examples
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I don't know whether your curiously scutellate mind has arrived at the point where it is willing to admit the existence of Monsieur X or not; but it will.
The Sign at Six Stewart Edward White 1909
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The boards seemed to move fairly of their own volition, like a scutellate monster of many joints, crawling from the cars, across the dock, over the side of the ship and into the black hold where presumably it coiled.
The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909
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