scute
About 0.04 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle, the skin of crocodiles, or the feet and legs of birds.
- noun A proneural gene, often associated with achaete, that is required for the formation of many larval and adult sense organs
- noun A small shield.
- noun An old French gold coin.
Similar words
homolog scutum scutellation shell postscutellum scutation mesoscutum scuttler scutellerid squamation
Often followed by
is and complex gene homolog locus of in with
Word family
scutes
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