- plural of scutum.
scuta
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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 two bands near the carina become confluent on the peduncle, and sometimes disappear; the carina is edged, and the interspace between the two scuta, coloured with the same dark tint.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Males, two, lodged in cavities on the under sides of the scuta; pouch-formed, with four unequal, rudimentary valves: no mouth: cirri not prehensile.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Valves 2 to 5, minute, remote from each other: scuta with two or three lobes, with their umbones in the middle of the occludent margin: carina arched, upper and lower ends nearly alike.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Orifice small, slightly protuberant; capitulum without horny scuta; generally with three small flattened projections along the carinal margin.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
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