Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
scutum .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural See
scutum .
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- noun A
scutum .
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Examples
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Whole body covered with spear shaped scales; head shining black; the ground colours of the back rich umber, almost black; scuta 161, of a dirty red orange; fangs two on each side of the upper jaw near the lios, small, and bent inwards; tongue forked
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Back, from the point of the tail to the point of the nose, dark sepia brown; under the head yellow; and towards the middle of the belly orange; scales minute; scuta 140; tongue forked; teeth very minute; no fangs observable.
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Dirty olive green over the whole back; belly dirty white; scuta 130.
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Dirty olive green on the back, from the neck to the tail; scuta 147, dirty reddish orange; head black from the nose to neck; sides of the head white; tongue forked.
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Habent verò scuta de viminibus, aut de virgulis facta.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Colour dirty olive over the whole body; belly dirty olive; white, faintly dotted from the throat down to the vent, with reddish dirty orange spots; the whole colour appears as if faded; the scales are more closely united to the skin than those of the NOON; fangs placed on each side of the upper jaw, short and rather blunt; scuta, 223.
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Habent ver� scuta de viminibus, aut de virgulis facta.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Romani milites, improviso metu incerti ignarique, quid potissimum facerent, trepidare; ad arcem oppidi, ubi signa et scuta erant, praesidium hostium; portae ante clausae fugam prohibebant; ad hoc mulieres puerique pro tectis aedificiorum [361] saxa et alia, quae locus praebebat, certatim mittere.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Nox et caeruleam terris infuderat umbram. ille propinquabat silvis et ab aggere celso scuta virum galeasque videt rutilare comantes, qua laxant rami nemus adversaque sub umbra flammeus aeratis lunae tremor errat in armis. obstipuit visis, ibat tamen, horrida tantum spicula et inclusum capulo tenus admovet ensem. ac prior unde, viri, quidve occultatis in armis? 'non humili terrore rogat. nec reddita contra vox, fidamque negant suspecta silentia pacem.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Ed. Page view page image: rows of small circular spots of the same colour which garnis the sides along the edge of the scuta. it's bely contains 176
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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