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Webster 1913 Edition
Scute
1.
A small shield.
[Obs.]
Skelton.
2.
An old French gold coin of the value of 3s. 4d. sterling, or about 80 cents.
3.
(Zool.)
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Scute
SCUTE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
scute
scute
English
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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Skelton to this entry?)
- (historical) An old French gold coin.
Synonyms
Translations
plate or scale
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