Scutes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 82 anagrams from letters in scutes (cesstu).
1350-1400 for earlier sense “French coin, écu”; 1840-50 for current senses; Middle English Latin scūtum shield
The scutes of some extinct forms articulate with one another by a peg and socket arrangement as in some Ganoid fish.
The mid-body region is protected by a varying number of bands of scutes united by soft skin, so as to allow of movement.
The scutes on the neck, six in number, are packed closely together, the four biggest forming a square.
Wear on the shell of a box turtle reduces the thickness of scutes, as does the shedding of scutes in the aquatic emyids mentioned.
The four scutes of the next designs assume a symmetrical position, and the central crossed line may represent the alligators body.
All these scutes, except the anterior row, have articular facets; and all those of each row are united suturally.
Retention of scutes in terrestrial emyids and in testudinids is one of many specializations for existence on land.
Retention of scutes protects the shell of terrestrial chelonians against wear.
This appearance of thickness is enhanced by the contours of bony shell which correspond to the contours of the scutes.
scutes: the chitinous shields or plates on the segments of larvae.
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