| scutate | 1. Buckler-shaped; round or nearly round. 2. <zoology> Protected or covered by bony or horny plates, or large scales. Origin: L. Scutatus armed with a shield, from scutum a shield. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| scutch | 1. To beat or whip; to drub. 2. To separate the woody fibre from (flax, hemp, etc) by beating; to swingle. 3. To loosen and dress the fibre of (cotton or silk) by beating; to free (fibrous substances) from dust by beating and blowing. Scutching machine, a machine used to scutch cotton, silk, or flax; called also batting machine. Origin: See Scotch to cut slightly. 1. A wooden instrument used in scutching flax and hemp. 2. The woody fibre of flax; the refuse of scutched flax. "The smoke of the burning scutch." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scutch grass | <botany> A kind of pasture grass (Cynodon Dactylon). See Bermuda grass: also Illustration in Appendix. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scute | 1. A small shield. 2. An old French gold coin of the value of 3s. 4d. Sterling, or about 80 cents. 3. <zoology> A bony scale of a reptile or fish; a large horny scale on the leg of a bird, or on the belly of a snake. Origin: L. Scutum a shield, a buckler. See Scudo. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scutella | Origin: NL, fem. Dim. Of L. Scutum. <zoology> See Scutellum. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scutellated | 1. <zoology> Formed like a plate or salver; composed of platelike surfaces; as, the scutellated bone of a sturgeon. 2. [See Scutellum. <ornithology, zoology> 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) |
| scutellation | <zoology> The entire covering, or mode of arrangement, of scales, as on the legs and feet of a bird. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scutelliform | 1. Scutellate. 2. <botany> Having the form of a scutellum. Origin: L. Scutella a dish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scutelliplantar | <ornithology, zoology> Having broad scutella on the front, and small scales on the posterior side, of the tarsus; said of certain birds. Origin: L. Scutellus a shield + planta foot. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scutellum | Part of the embryo in seeds of the Poaceae (grasses). Can be considered equivalent to the cotyledon of other monocotyledenous seeds. During germination, absorbs degraded storage material from the endosperm and transfers it to the growing axis. (18 Nov 1997) |
| scutibranch | <zoology> Scutibranchiate. One of the Scutibranchiata. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scutibranchia | <zoology> Same as Scutibranchiata. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scutibranchian | <zoology> One of the Scutibranchiata. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scutibranchiata | <zoology> An order of gastropod Mollusca having a heart with two auricles and one ventricle. The shell may be either spiral or shieldlike. It is now usually regarded as including only the Rhipidoglossa and the Docoglossa. When originally established, it included a heterogenous group of mollusks having shieldlike shells, such as Haliotis, Fissurella, Carinaria, etc. Origin: NL. See Scutum, and Branchia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scutibranchiate | <zoology> Having the gills protected by a shieldlike shell; of or pertaining to the Scutibranchiata. One of the Scutibranchiata. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |