Definitions for scutellum

scutellum scu·tel·lum

Spelling: [skyoo-tel-uh m]
IPA: /skyuˈtɛl əm/

Scutellum is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 229 anagrams from letters in scutellum (cellmstuu).

Definitions for scutellum

noun

  1. Botany. the shieldlike cotyledon of certain monocots.
  2. Zoology. a small plate, scutum, or other shieldlike part, as on the thorax of insects or the feet of birds.

Origin of scutellum

1750-60; New Latin, equivalent to Latin scūt(um) shield (see scute) + -ellum diminutive suffix

Examples for scutellum

There lies a connecting part between the germ and its food, the scutellum.

The posterior margin of the scutellum rounded; wings dark brown with a violet iridescence.

It is usually less elevated than the scutellum; in Necrophorus, and some other beetles, however, the latter is most depressed.

Bugs should be pinned through the scutellum, as the small triangular piece between the elytra is called.

The scutellum is considered to represent the first leaf or cotyledon.

Something like elytra and a scutellum appear to distinguish these insects.

The bristles which are most distorted are those upon the scutellum, where they are sometimes curled together into balls.

Eyes with short petioles, extending a little beyond the sides of the thorax; scutellum blackish purple.

The suture is the internal margin of the elytrum from the point of the scutellum to the end.

Thorax anticus valde productus et attenuatus; scutellum bispinosum; metathorax magnus, declivis.

Word Value for scutellum
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