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scutate

[skyoo-teyt]

adjective

Botany. formed like a round buckler.

Zoology. having scutes, shields, or large scales.

Origin:
1820–30; < Latin scūtātus. See scutum, -ate¹

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scutate (ˈskjuːteɪt)

—*adj*
1.	(of animals) having or covered with large bony or horny plates
2.	botany shaped like a round shield or buckler: a scutate leaf

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

scu'tation

—n

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