/skjuːt/
OriginBorrowed from Latin scutum (“shield”). Compare scutum, escudo, scudo, and écu.
- A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle or the skin of crocodiles.
“Then one afternoon, as he's stripping the scutes and hide from a shortnose sturgeon, an idea hits him.”
- A proneural gene, often associated with achaete, that is required for the formation of many larval and adult sense organs
- obsoleteA small shield.
“But yet they ouer shote vs
Wyth crownes and wyth scutus;
With scutis and crownes of gold
I drede we are bought and solde; […]”
- historicalAn old French gold coin.
Formsscutes(plural)