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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Shaped like a round shield.
- adj. Zoology Having a clypeus: clypeate insects.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Shaped like a round buckler; shield-shaped; scutate; scutellate. Also clypeiform.
- In entomology, provided with a clypeus: said especially of the head of a hemipterous insect when the crown is produced in front, forming a clypeus over the anterior part or face.
Wiktionary
- adj. botany Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.
- adj. zoology Furnished with a protective plate or shell.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Bot.) Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.
- adj. (Zoöl.) Furnished with a shield, or a protective plate or shell.
Etymologies
- Latin clupeatus, past participle of clupeare to arm with a shield, from clupeus, clipeus shield. (Wiktionary)
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