Scutum

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.
2. isim A scute.
3. isim 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. isim One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.
5. isim The kneecap.
6. özel isim A small autumn constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a shield. It lies between the constellations of Aquila, Sagittarius, and the tail of Serpens.