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Definition of Scute
1. Noun. Large bony or horny plate as on an armadillo or turtle or the underside of a snake.
Definition of Scute
1. n. A small shield.
Definition of Scute
1. Noun. (biology) A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle or the skin of crocodiles. ¹
2. Noun. (genetics) A proneural gene, often associated with achaete, that is required for the formation of many larval and adult sense organs ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scute
1. a horny plate or scale [n -S]
Medical Definition of Scute
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1. A small shield.
2. An old French gold coin of the value of 3s. 4d. Sterling, or about 80 cents.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Scute
Literary usage of Scute
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Origines Islandicae: A Collection of the More Important Sagas and Other by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1905)
"Then scute slipped between him and the door. But when Glum saw that, ...
scute called on him to stay. Glum says that it was said that there was not much ..."
2. Origines Islandicae: A Collection of the More Important Sagas and Other by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1905)
"Now scute walked up to the door of the shieling and knocked on the wall, ...
Then scute slipped between him and the door. But when Glum saw that, ..."
3. Origines Islandicae: A Collection of the More Important Sagas and Other by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1905)
"Now scute walked up to the door of the shieling and knocked on the wall, ...
Then scute slipped between him and the door. But when Glum saw that, ..."
4. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1916)
"The mother has a small scute (like Fig. 20) in band 2, two places from the ...
The mother has scute 2 from the middle of band 2 double, and fetus III. has ..."
5. Bradford's History "of Plimoth Plantation.": From the Original Manuscript by William Bradford, Massachusetts General Court, Massachusetts Office of the Secretary of State (1899)
"... bills to Mr. Sherley in England, having before sente ye forementioned parcell
of beaver. And now this year (by another ship) scute an other good round ..."
6. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"Their preparation to goe from thence : they depart in a Boat and scute both open,
and come to Cola, 1143. miles. Their many dangers by Beares, Ice, Famine, ..."
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