Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle or the underside of a snake. Also called scutum.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A shield or buckler; also, a heraldic shield; an escutcheon.
- n. An old French gold coin, of the value of 3s. 4d. sterling, or 80 cents.
- n. 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.
- n. An obsolete form of scout.
- n. In anatomy, a semilunar plate of bone forming the outer portion of the roof of the tympanum of the ear. Also called scutum tympanicum.
Wiktionary
- n. biology A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle or the skin of crocodiles.
- n. genetics A proneural gene, often associated with achaete, that is required for the formation of many larval and adult sense organs
- n. obsolete A small shield.
- n. historical An old French gold coin.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A small shield.
- n. An old French gold coin of the value of 3s. 4d. sterling, or about 80 cents.
- n. (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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. large bony or horny plate as on an armadillo or turtle or the underside of a snake
Etymologies
- From Latin scutum ("shield") (Wiktionary)
- From Latin scūtum, shield; see scutum. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“scute" effect, it was found that there are in fact, within the normal X-chromosome, two genes of closely related effect”
“There is an extra pseudo-scute called the cervical making 21 in all.”
“The 15. of Iune there rowed a scute called a Prawen harde vnder the lande by vs, wee called him, but not against his will, and shewed him siluer, and other wares that liked him well, he bad vs make towards the strand, and told vs of Bantam, saying that there we should haue al kinds of Marchandise.”
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“Then we made signs vnto him that if he wold bring vs to Bantam, we wold pay him for his labor, he asked vs 5. rialles of 8. and a redcap, which we graunted vnto, and so one of the men in the scute came on bord the Mauritius, and was our Pilot to Bantam, where we passed by many Islandes.”
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“An anthropoid with blade and scute in place of hands could not crawl very well.”
“-- Diagram of a vertical section of both Carapace and Plastron of a Tortoise, made transversely to the long axis of the skeleton. c, vertebral centrum; ns, neural spine which expands above into a median dorsal scute; r, rib which forms one mass with a lateral scute and terminates at a marginal plate, ic, interclavicular scute; hp, hyo-sternal scute.”
“Carmena A, Bate M, Jimenez F (1995) Lethal of scute, a proneural gene, participates in the specification of muscle progenitors during Drosophila embryogenesis.”
“Bantam, we wold pay him for his labor, he asked vs 5. rialles of 8. and a redcap, which we graunted vnto, and so one of the men in the scute came on bord the Mauritius, and was our Pilot to Bantam, where we passed by many”
“The 15. of Iune there rowed a scute called a Prawen harde vnder the lande by vs, wee called him, but not against his will, and shewed him siluer, and other wares that liked him well, he bad vs make towards the strand, and told vs of Bantam, saying that there we should haue al kinds of”
“The report finds evidence that a transcription factor called Achaete scute-like 2 (Ascl2) switches on the stem cell program in intestinal cells.”
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Turtles
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