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adj. Zoology Covered or protected by scutes.

adj. Botany Shaped like a shield or buckler: scutate leaves.

adj. Shaped like a shield or buckler

adj. Of, pertaining to or covered with scutes

adj. Buckler-shaped; round or nearly round.

adj. Protected or covered by bony or horny plates, or large scales.

In zoology:

Provided with scutes, shields, plates, or large scales; squamate; squamous; scaly; scutellate.

Resembling a scute or shield; broad and somewhat convex.

In botany, formed like an ancient round buckler: as, a scutate leaf. See cut under peltate

A tarsus in which a single joint is dilated so as to form a broad plate.

A tarsus covered with large flat scales, as in the genus Lepisma.

"Their scales, instead of being imbricated like those of land-snakes, form hexagons; and those on the belly, instead of being scutate and enlarged, are nearly of the same size and form as on other parts of the body."

scutate tarsus   

buckler-shaped