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scutum

N แผ่น กระดูก เกล็ด scute pan-kra-duk

scutum

N โล่ ขนาดใหญ่ ของ ทหาร โรมัน โบรา ณ buckler shield lo-ka-nad-yai-kong-ta-han-lo-man

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SCUTUM

Scu "tum, n.; pl. Scuta. Etym: [L.]

1. (Rom. Antiq.)

Defn: An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; -- carried chiefly by the heavy- armed infantry.

2. (O. Eng. Law )

Defn: A penthouse or awning. [Obs. ] Burrill.

3. (Zoöl.) (a ) The second and largest of the four parts forming the upper surface of a thoracic segment of an insect. It is preceded by the prescutum and followed by the scutellum. See the Illust. under Thorax. (b ) One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.

New American Oxford Dictionary

Scutum

Scu tum |ˈsk (y )o͞otəm ˈskjutəm |Astronomy a small constellation (the Shield ) near the celestial equator, lying in the Milky Way between Aquila and Serpens. • (as genitive Scuti |ˈsk (y )o͞otē, -ˌtī |) used with a preceding letter or numeral to designate a star in this constellation: the star Beta Scuti. ORIGIN Latin.

scutum

scu tum |ˈsk (y )o͞otəm ˈskjudəm | ▶noun ( pl. scuta |-tə | ) Zoology another term for scute. • Entomology the second dorsal sclerite in each thoracic segment of an insect. ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from Latin, literally ‘oblong shield. ’

Oxford Dictionary

Scutum

Scutum |ˈskjuːtəm |Astronomy a small constellation near the celestial equator (the Shield ), lying in the Milky Way between Aquila and Serpens. ORIGIN Latin.

scutum

scutum |ˈskjuːtəm | ▶noun ( pl. scuta |-tə | ) Zoology another term for scute. • Entomology the second dorsal sclerite in each thoracic segment of an insect. ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from Latin, literally ‘oblong shield ’.