scute

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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. isim A proneural gene, often associated with achaete, that is required for the formation of many larval and adult sense organs
3. isim A small shield.

   “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. isim An old French gold coin.