How to use scuta in a sentence
Operculum, or opercular valves.These consist of a pair of scuta and a pair of terga.
A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) | Charles DarwinCirripedia without a peduncle; scuta and terga furnished with depressor muscles; other valves united immoveably together.
A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) | Charles DarwinAltogether the scuta and terga are attached, as far as muscles are concerned, to the shell and sack, by three longitudinal pairs.
A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) | Charles DarwinThis articulation of the scuta and terga is prefigured amongst the Lepadid, in Pollicipes mitella, and in Lithotrya.
A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) | Charles DarwinIn shape the scuta are generally sub-triangular; but in some species of Pyrgoma and in Chelonobia, &c. they are much elongated.
A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) | Charles Darwin
British Dictionary definitions for scuta
/ (ˈskjuːtə) /
the plural of scutum
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