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- noun Plural form of
scute .
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Examples
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Down their wide flanks run reptilian spikes, called "scutes," ancient prototypes of fish scales.
The Great California Caviar Rush Stinson Carter 2011
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The bony plates or scales on crocodiles, called scutes, are clipped during first captures.
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The bony plates or scales on crocodiles, called scutes, are clipped during first captures.
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The bony plates or scales on crocodiles, called scutes, are clipped during first captures.
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The plates on the back are called scutes; firefly larvae also have this character.
WN.com - Articles related to Kill weeds with help from the sun 2010
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The plates on the back are called scutes; firefly larvae also have this character.
WN.com - Articles related to Kill weeds with help from the sun 2010
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She cuts away most of the bony protective skin from its back, but leaves three ridges called 'scutes' near the tail to identify the work as hers to anyone who inspects or grades the hide.
Archive 2007-07-29 Bill Crider 2007
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It takes two hours to do all that is needed - taking skin samples for genetic studies, recording information about the turtle's shell including the locations of barnacles and number of "scutes," attaching a metal ID-tag to each of the turtle's flippers, and weighing and measuring each of the four turtles.
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It takes two hours to do all that is needed - taking skin samples for genetic studies, recording information about the turtle's shell including the locations of barnacles and number of "scutes," attaching a metal ID-tag to each of the turtle's flippers, and weighing and measuring each of the four turtles.
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The dermis when hardened becomes bony, and of such nature are the bony skin-plates or "scutes" and teeth.
The Common Frog 1874
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