- plural of scutum.
scuta
Americannoun
noun
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Description.—The capitulum is not much compressed, a horizontal section giving an oval figure; it is placed obliquely on the peduncle, the scuta descending lower than the terga and carina.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
The basal points extend below the basal margins of the scuta.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Scutig′erous, provided with a scute or scuta; Scū′tiped, having the shanks scaly, of birds.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Terga, large, nearly equalling the scuta in area, flat and sub-triangular; the scutal margin is not quite straight.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
The occludent segments of the scuta, and nearly the whole of the terga, and the whole of the carina, enveloped in lemon-yellow membrane, tinged with orange, but the specimen had long been kept dry.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
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