scutum

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; carried chiefly by the heavily armed infantry of the Roman army. Roman,historical
  2. A scute.
  3. A shield-like protection, such as the scutum protecting the back of a hard tick (cf. alloscutum, conscutum).
    — A tick's eye, if present, is a mere roundish lucent area at the margin of the scutum about opposite the second coxa.
  4. One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.
  5. The kneecap.

词形变化

scuta plural scutums plural

词汇关系

近义词
scuta

词源

Borrowed from Latin scūtum (“shield”). Doublet of escudo, scudo, scute, and écu.
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