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scutulate, a. (ˈskjuːtjʊlət) Also erron. scutilate. [ad. mod.L. scūtulāt-us, f. L. scūtulum dim. of scūtum shield.] = scutellate. Also ˈscutulated a.1827 R. Jameson tr. Cuvier's Theory of Earth (ed. 5) 310 Two-thirds of the leg, and the whole length of the toes, are scutulate. 1848 Hepburn in Proc. ...
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scutellate
scutellate, a. (ˈskjuːtɪleɪt) [ad. mod.L. scutellātus, orig. f. L. scutella platter, but apprehended as f. scutellum: see -ate. Cf. scutulate.] 1. Bot. (See quots.)1785 Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxxii. 497 The sections of the genus [Lichens] are,..2. Scutellate, or such as have little shields, or round...
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scutellum
scutellum (skjuːˈtɛləm) Pl. scutella. [mod.L.; app. in origin a supposed correction of scutella (see scutella), due to the notion that this was a dim. of L. scūtum shield; the applications are based on the rendering ‘little shield’. The correct L. dim. of scūtum was scūtulum, which some mod. scienti...
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