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  • English Word Scutcher Definition An implement or machine for scutching hemp, flax, or cotton; etc.; a scutch; a scutching machine.
  • English Word Scutching Definition of Scutch
  • English Word Scute Definition A small shield.
  • English Word Scute Definition An old French gold coin of the value of 3s. 4d. sterling, or about 80 cents.
  • English Word Scute Definition 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.
  • English Word Scutella Definition See Scutellum.
  • English Word Scutella Definition See Scutellum, n., 2.
  • English Word Scutella Definition of Scutellum
  • English Word Scutellate Definition Alt. of Scutellated
  • English Word Scutellated Definition Formed like a plate or salver; composed of platelike surfaces; as, the scutellated bone of a sturgeon.
  • English Word Scutellated Definition Having the tarsi covered with broad transverse scales, or scutella; -- said of certain birds.
  • English Word Scutellation Definition the entire covering, or mode of arrangement, of scales, as on the legs and feet of a bird.
  • English Word Scutelle Definition of Scutella
  • English Word Scutelliform Definition Scutellate.
  • English Word Scutelliform Definition Having the form of a scutellum.
  • English Word Scutelliplantar Definition Having broad scutella on the front, and small scales on the posterior side, of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds.
  • English Word Scutellum Definition A rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens.
  • English Word Scutellum Definition The third of the four pieces forming the upper part of a thoracic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the small postscutellum; a scutella. See Thorax.
  • English Word Scutellum Definition One of the transverse scales on the tarsi and toes of birds; a scutella.
  • English Word Scutibranch Definition Scutibranchiate.
  • English Word Scutibranch Definition One of the Scutibranchiata.
  • English Word Scutibranchia Definition Same as Scutibranchiata.
  • English Word Scutibranchian Definition One of the Scutibranchiata.
  • English Word Scutibranchiata Definition An order of gastropod Mollusca having a heart with two auricles and one ventricle. The shell may be either spiral or shieldlike.
  • English Word Scutibranchiate Definition Having the gills protected by a shieldlike shell; of or pertaining to the Scutibranchiata.
  • English Word Scutibranchiate Definition One of the Scutibranchiata.
  • English Word Scutiferous Definition Carrying a shield or buckler.
  • English Word Scutiform Definition Shield-shaped; scutate.
  • English Word Scutiger Definition Any species of chilopod myriapods of the genus Scutigera. They sometimes enter buildings and prey upon insects.
  • English Word Scutiped Definition Having the anterior surface of the tarsus covered with scutella, or transverse scales, in the form of incomplete bands terminating at a groove on each side; -- said of certain birds.