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plural scutes
(zoology) A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle or the skin of crocodiles. quotations
Then one afternoon, as he's stripping the scutes and hide from a shortnose sturgeon, an idea hits him.
1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 71
(genetics) A proneural gene, often associated with achaete, that is required for the formation of many larval and adult sense organs examples
(obsolete) A small shield. quotations
yet they ouer ſhoote us With crownes and with ſcutus With Scutes and crownesI drede we are bought and ſolde
a. 1529, John Skelton, Why come ye not to Court
(historical) An old French gold coin.