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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Shaped like a round shield.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Furnished with a shield, or a protective plate or shell.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Shaped like a
round buckler orshield ;scutate . - adjective zoology Furnished with a
protective plate orshell .
Etymologies
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Latin clupeatus, past participle of clupeare to arm with a shield, from clupeus, clipeus shield.
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