Definition of Scutellated

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Scutellated

1. 1. Formed like a plate or salver; composed of platelike surfaces; as, the scutellated bone of a sturgeon. 2. [See Scutellum. Having the tarsi covered with broad transverse scales, or scutella; said of certain birds. Origin: L. Scutella a dish, salver. Cf. Scuttle a basket. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scutellated

scutch
scutched
scutcheon
scutcheoned
scutcheons
scutcher
scutchers
scutches
scutching
scutella
scutellar
scutellate
scutellated (current term)
scutellation
scutellations
scutelliform
scutelliplantar
scutes
scutibranch
scutibranchia
scutibranchian
scutibranchiata
scutibranchiate
scutibranchiates
scutiferous
scutiform

Literary usage of Scutellated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1851)
"on the joints ; upper surface of the toes scutellated ; nails powerful, and not much curved ; the nail of the centre toe ..."

2. An Illustrated Manual of British Birds by Howard Saunders (1899)
"Tarsus scutellated in front, covered at the sides with a single plate, ... Tarsus slender, and shorter than the middle toe, scutellated in front, ..."

3. A manual of British vertebrate animals: Or Descriptions of All the Animals by Leonard Jenyns (1835)
"... scutellated : middle toe much longer than the lateral ones: wings short, not reaching beyond two-thirds of the length of the tail: fourth quill longest. ..."

4. Birds by Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford (1895)
"Size moderate : tarsus scutellated in front but not behind. g*. Tarsus short; bill from gape more than half tarsus. (Kites.) e'. Tail slightly rounded at ..."

5. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederic Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"... metatarsi scutellated anteriorly, shortish wings, and graduated tails. They are blue-grey above, with black rectrices, externally marked with white; ..."

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