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Definition of Scutate
1. a. Buckler-shaped; round or nearly round.
Definition of Scutate
1. Adjective. Shaped like a shield or buckler ¹
2. Adjective. Of, pertaining to or covered with scutes ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scutate
1. shaped like a shield [adj]
Medical Definition of Scutate
1.
1. Buckler-shaped; round or nearly round.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Scutate
Literary usage of Scutate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants [&c.] by James Sowerby, Charles Johnson, James Edward Smith (1846)
"Frond with a hard scutate base, furnished in many species with distinct leaf-like
processes. Generally furnished with air-vessels, which are either uniform ..."
2. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"Root scutate. Frond filiform, of an olive color and cartilaginous substance. ...
Root scutate. Stipes cylindrical. Lower leave« plane upper ones filiform, ..."
3. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (1864)
"(6) 19. Last segment of body in the $ more strongly punctured than the preceding,
not excavated in the Ç . (23) 20. Front legs of $ scutate, both sexes with ..."
4. The Micrographic Dictionary: A Guide to the Examination and Investigation of by John William Griffith, Arthur Henfrey (1883)
"Hoot scutate. Frond much branched, bushy. Receptacles cellular. ... Hoot scutate.
Frond dichotomous. Receptacles tilled with mucus, traversed by jointed ..."
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