| 单词 | scute |
| 释义 | scute (once / 203782 pages) n WORD FAMILY scute: scutes USAGE EXAMPLESBoth halves have sections called “scutes” — made of keratin, like your fingernails — that protect the bone underneath. Washington Post(May 16, 2016) "This extinct mammal combines all types of hairs and hair-related structures of modern mammals: long guard hairs, velvet underfur, spines and scutes," Luo added. Reuters(Oct 14, 2015) On a string of leather around Stokes’s neck hung a scute, one of the bony ridges that line an alligator’s back. New York Times(Aug 20, 2015) n large bony or horny plate as on an armadillo or turtle or the underside of a snake Hypo|Hyper carapace, cuticle, shell, shield hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles cuticulathe outer body wall of an insect protective covering the tough natural covering of some organisms |
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