scute

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle, the skin of crocodiles, or the feet and legs of birds.
    — Then one afternoon, as he's stripping the scutes and hide from a shortnose sturgeon, an idea hits him.
  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
    — But yet they ouer shote vs Wyth crownes and wyth scutus; With scutis and crownes of gold I drede we are bought and solde; […]
  4. An old French gold coin. historical

词形变化

scutes plural

词汇关系

近义词
scutum

词源

Borrowed from Latin scutum (“shield”). Compare scutum, escudo, scudo, and écu.
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