SCUTUM
\skjˈuːtəm], \skjˈuːtəm], \s_k_j_ˈuː_t_ə_m]\
Definitions of SCUTUM
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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The second and largest of the four parts forming the upper surface of a thoracic segment of an insect. It is preceded by the prescutum and followed by the scutellum. See the Illust. under Thorax.
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One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.
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An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; - carried chiefly by the heavy-armed infantry.
By Oddity Software
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The second and largest of the four parts forming the upper surface of a thoracic segment of an insect. It is preceded by the prescutum and followed by the scutellum. See the Illust. under Thorax.
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One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.
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An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; - carried chiefly by the heavy-armed infantry.
By Noah Webster.
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The shield of the heavy-armed Roman legionaries; it was generally oval or of a semi-cylindrical shape, made of wood or wicker-work, covered with leather, and defended with plates of iron: in anat. the patella or knee-pan, from its shape: in zool. (a) the second section of the upper surface of the segment of an insect; (b) any shield-like plate, especially such as is developed in the integument of many reptiles: in old law, a pent-house or awning.
By Daniel Lyons
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A shield-like plate, horny, bony, or chitinous, developed in the integument ; the fornix or modified spine overhanging the aperture in some Cheilostomata.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Robley Dunglison