Definitions for scuta

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scuta scu·ta

Spelling: [skyoo-tuh]

IPA: /ˈskyu tə/

Scuta is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in scuta (acstu).

Definitions for scuta

noun

1. plural of scutum.
2. Zoology. scute (def 1).
3. a large, oblong shield used by the heavy legionaries of ancient Rome.
4. genitive Scuti [skoo-tahy] /ˈsku taɪ/ (Show IPA). (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the Shield, a southern constellation north of Sagittarius and east of Aquila, containing a small, very bright star cloud.

Origin of scuta

First recorded in 1765-75, scutum is from the Latin word scūtum shield

Examples for scuta

Cavities in the scuta of the Female for the reception of the Males.

In shape the scuta are generally sub-triangular; but in some species of Pyrgoma and in Chelonobia, &c. they are much elongated.

The scuta are coloured either dull-purple or reddish, or striped longitudinally white and blue.

This articulation of the scuta and terga is prefigured amongst the Lepadid, in Pollicipes mitella, and in Lithotrya.

Operculum, or opercular valves.These consist of a pair of scuta and a pair of terga.

Cirripedia without a peduncle; scuta and terga furnished with depressor muscles; other valves united immoveably together.

Abdomen: Half as broad as it is long and divided into twelve scuta.

Unfortunately the differences are not very great between the scuta of the different species.

Altogether the scuta and terga are attached, as far as muscles are concerned, to the shell and sack, by three longitudinal pairs.

The scuta, terga, and carina are much larger than the other valves.