Scute 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 61 anagrams from letters in scute (cestu).
1350-1400 for earlier sense “French coin, écu”; 1840-50 for current senses; Middle English Latin scūtum shield
The new layer is thin and indistinct under the oldest part of the scute but becomes more distinct toward its periphery.
Nor could I satisfy myself that the margins of the scute were continuous with the surrounding bundles of connective tissue.
From before backwards, the inner surface of the scute is a little convex.
Its highest point is always behind the centre of the scute, and is devoid of sculpture.
A scute that shows a single season of growth has two layers; a new layer is added in each subsequent season of growth.
This crest always subsides before it reaches the anterior margin of the scute, though it may extend beyond the posterior margin.
Contrasting pale and dark areas of the germinal layer correspond to the pattern of markings on the scute removed.
Scutig′erous, provided with a scute or scuta; Scū′tiped, having the shanks scaly, of birds.
They are mere dips or depressions in the surface of the scute.
There is little actual increase in thickness of the scute after the first three or four years of growth.
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