scutum
noun
scutum
American
[skyoo-tuhm]
/ ˈskju təm /
noun
scuta,
plural
Scuti
genitive
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Zoology. scute.
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a large, oblong shield used by the heavy legionaries of ancient Rome.
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(initial capital letter) the Shield, a southern constellation north of Sagittarius and east of Aquila, containing a small, very bright star cloud.
scutum
1
British
/ ˈskjuːtəm /
noun
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the middle of three plates into which the notum of an insect's thorax is divided
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another word for scute
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a large Roman shield
Scutum
2
British
/ ˈskjuːtəm /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of scutum
First recorded in 1765–75; from Latin scūtum “shield”
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Found globally, these insects are named for their outsized scutellum, from the Latin word scutum, meaning shield.
From National Geographic ● Jun. 23, 2018
The company was named using the Latin aqua and scutum, meaning water shield, and its grey Aquascutum raincoats were worn during the Crimean war by British army officers.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 2011
"The God that heweth kings in oak Writeth songs on vellum, God of gold and flaming glass, Confregit potentias Acrcuum, scutum, Gorlias, Gladium et bellum."
From The Ballad of the White Horse by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
A scutum of the largest specimen was 17/1000ths in length.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
A transparent layer of chitine, which forms a border to the occludent margin of the scutum of the hermaphrodite.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
Some stars, like UY Scuti, an extreme red hypergiant in the constellation Scutum, have a radius 1,700 times our sun, which could fit inside it almost 5 billion times.
From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2023
The Scutum Constellation guards the Wild Duck Cluster, a collection of stars that resembles a flock of ducks.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 9, 2022
Sagittarius and its neighbor, the small but rich constellation Scutum Sobieskii, attract us next.
From Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers by Serviss, Garrett Putman
Scutum, mantle split anteriorly and reflected over shell, which has no slit.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
Scutum Sobieski.—This is, or was, a small constellation in the southern portion of Aquila, which was formed by Hevelius in 1660 in honour of the Polish hero Sobieski.
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by Gore, J. Ellard
Capitulum oval, blending insensibly into the peduncle; moderately flattened; composed of thin structureless membrane, with the exception of two horny, almost quite hidden scuta.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
Complemental Male, attached between the mouth and adductor scutorum muscle; pedunculated; capitulum bearing a pair of elongated scuta and a rudimentary carina; mouth and cirri prehensile.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
The scuta have a deep pit for the adductor muscle.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
From the appearance of the under surface of the scuta, it might readily have been thought, that there had been two adductor muscles.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
The scuta are rather broader in proportion to their length, which would naturally follow from less having been added to their apices,—these valves at first growing only downwards.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
Oklahoma teen Willis "Blue Scuti" Gibson claimed to be the first to ever beat the game earlier this year when he reached level 157 in 38 minutes before it crashed.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2024
The teenager - who goes by the name of Blue Scuti on YouTube - has played the game since he was 11, and has competed in several gaming tournaments.
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2024
Some stars, like UY Scuti, an extreme red hypergiant in the constellation Scutum, have a radius 1,700 times our sun, which could fit inside it almost 5 billion times.
From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2023
Compared to UY Scuti, our favorite star is a speck of dust.
From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2023
Astronomers have decoded the inner pulsations of a class of stars called δ Scuti by precisely tracking how their brightness evolves in time.
From Nature ● May 13, 2020
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