Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A keratinous, chitinous, or bony external plate, as on the shell of a turtle or the underside of a snake.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, a semilunar plate of bone forming the outer portion of the roof of the tympanum of the ear. Also called
scutum tympanicum . - noun A shield or buckler; also, a heraldic shield; an escutcheon.
- noun An old French gold coin, of the value of 3s. 4d. sterling, or 80 cents.
- noun 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. - noun An obsolete form of
scout .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A small shield.
- noun An old French gold coin of the value of 3s. 4d. sterling, or about 80 cents.
- noun (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology A horny,
chitinous , or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle or the skin of crocodiles. - noun genetics A
proneural gene , often associated withachaete , that is required for the formation of manylarval and adultsense organs - noun obsolete A small
shield . - noun historical An old
French gold coin .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large bony or horny plate as on an armadillo or turtle or the underside of a snake
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"scute" effect, it was found that there are in fact, within the normal X-chromosome, two genes of closely related effect
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There is an extra pseudo-scute called the cervical making 21 in all.
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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.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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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.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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An anthropoid with blade and scute in place of hands could not crawl very well.
A Circus of Hells Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1969
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-- 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.
The Common Frog 1874
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Carmena A, Bate M, Jimenez F (1995) Lethal of scute, a proneural gene, participates in the specification of muscle progenitors during Drosophila embryogenesis.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sarada Bulchand et al. 2010
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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 Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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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 Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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The report finds evidence that a transcription factor called Achaete scute-like 2 (Ascl2) switches on the stem cell program in intestinal cells.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
whichbe commented on the word scute
So cute!
November 11, 2008