different between scute vs scuts

English

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

scute (plural scutes)

(zoology) A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle or the skin of crocodiles.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 71:
  Then one afternoon, as he's stripping the scutes and hide from a shortnose sturgeon, an idea hits him.
(genetics) A proneural gene, often associated with achaete, that is required for the formation of many larval and adult sense organs
(obsolete) A small shield.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Skelton to this entry?)
(historical) An old French gold coin.

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