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scutellate, a.|ˈskjuːtɪleɪt|
[ad. mod.L. scutellātus, orig. f. L. scutella platter, but apprehended as f. scutellum: see -ate. Cf. scutulate.]
1. Bot. (See quots.)
1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxxii. 497 The sections of the genus [Lichens] are,..2. Scutellate, or such as have little shields, or roundish receptacles with a rim. 1821W. P. C. Barton Flora N. Amer. I. 79 Calix scutellate as in the whole genus. 1857A. Gray First Less. Bot. (1866) Gloss., Scutellate..saucer-shaped or platter-shaped. 1887W. Phillips Brit. Discomyc. 284 Cup superficial,..sessile, scutellate. Ibid. Gloss., Scutellate, formed like a dish or saucer, orbicular and nearly flat.
2. Zool.
a. Ent. Of an insect: ‘Having a visible scutellum’.
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. 332.
b. Ornith. Of the feet of birds: Covered with scutella.
1872Coues Key N. Amer. Birds 46 A tarsus so furnished is said to be scutellate, before or behind, or both. 1893Newton Dict. Birds 511 The podotheca or covering of the tarsus, which is scutellate behind as well as in front.
c. Of certain structures: Shaped like a platter.
1849–52Todd's Cycl. Anat. IV. 4/2 Amœba enclosed in an urceolate or scutellate shell. 1856–8W. Clark Van der Hoeven's Zool. I. 48 Arcella, Ehrenb. Lorica scutellate, globose, or hemispherical. |