scute
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin scutum (“shield”). Compare scutum, escudo, scudo, and écu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skjuːt/
- Rhymes: -uːt
Noun
scute (plural scutes)
- (zoology) A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle or the skin of crocodiles.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 71:
- Then one afternoon, as he's stripping the scutes and hide from a shortnose sturgeon, an idea hits him.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 71:
- (genetics) A proneural gene, often associated with achaete, that is required for the formation of many larval and adult sense organs
- (obsolete) A small shield.
- a. 1529, John Skelton, Why come ye not to Court
- yet they ouer ſhoote us
With crownes and with ſcutus With Scutes and crownes
I drede we are bought and ſolde
- a. 1529, John Skelton, Why come ye not to Court
- (historical) An old French gold coin.
Synonyms
- scutum
Translations
plate or scale
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Anagrams
- Cetus, cutes