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scute means: large bony or horny plate as on an armadillo or turtle or the underside of a snake

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scute

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5 lettersPronunciation /skjuːt/Part of speech nounSorted cestuStarts with SEnds with E0 clues

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large bony or horny plate as on an armadillo or turtle or the underside of a snake

Borrowed from Latin scutum (“shield”). Compare scutum, escudo, scudo, and écu.

“Then one afternoon, as he's stripping the scutes and hide from a shortnose sturgeon, an idea hits him.”
“But yet they ouer shote vs Wyth crownes and wyth scutus; With scutis and crownes of gold I drede we are bought and solde; […]”

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