Meaning of scute | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle or the skin of crocodiles.
2. A proneural gene, often associated with achaete, that is required for the formation of many larval and adult sense organs
3. A small shield.
   obsolete
4. An old French gold coin.
   historical

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Examples

“Then one afternoon, as he's stripping the scutes and hide from a shortnose sturgeon, an idea hits him.”

“But yet they ouer shote vs Wyth crownes and wyth scutus; With scutis and crownes of gold I drede we are bought and solde; […]”

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