scutate

[ skyoo-teyt ]

adjective

1. Botany. formed like a round buckler.
2. Zoology. having scutes, shields, or large scales.

scutate

/ ˈskjuːteɪt /

adjective

1. (of animals) having or covered with large bony or horny plates
2. botany shaped like a round shield or buckler

   a scutate leaf

Derived Forms

• scuˈtation, noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of scutate¹

From the Latin word scūtātus, dating back to 1820–30. See scutum, -ate ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of scutate¹

C19: from Latin scūtātus armed with a shield, from scūtum a shield

Example Sentences

Shield-shaped, same as scutate, or as peltate, 53.

From Project Gutenberg

Sporangia gregarious, globose or hemispheric, umbilicate beneath, small, white, stipitate; the peridium smoky, covered with minute calcareous crystals; stipe slender, erect, black, opaque; hypothallus scutate, black; columella distinct, globose, black or dark brown; capillitium of delicate threads, pale brown or colorless, with occasional brown thickenings or nodes, sparingly branched; spores pale, violaceous by transmitted light, minutely warted, 6–8 �.

From Project Gutenberg

It is at once recognisable by the rhomboidal scutate form of the cell viewed anteriorly, and, when the back is also viewed, the resemblance of the two aspects to the back, and breastplates of a coat of mail, is very striking.

From Project Gutenberg