Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Shield-shaped: scutiform leaves.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Shield-shaped. Properly, of the form of a Roman scutum in one of its varieties (see cuts under
scutum ); most commonly, like the triangular or heater-shaped shield of the fourteenth century.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Shield-shaped; scutate.
Etymologies
- Latin scutum ("shield") + -form (Wiktionary)
- Latin scūtum, shield; see scutum + -form. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Peltate was defined as a "shield-shaped, scutiform.”
Lists
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