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/skjuːt/ · noun
(zoology) A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle, the skin of crocodiles, or the feet and legs of birds..
Then one afternoon, as he's stripping the scutes and hide from a shortnose sturgeon, an idea hits him.
But yet they ouer shote vs Wyth crownes and wyth scutus; With scutis and crownes of gold I drede we are bought and solde; […]
Use scute when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Scute means (zoology) A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle, the skin of crocodiles, or the feet and legs of birds..
Common synonyms include scutum.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Then one afternoon, as he's stripping the scutes and hide from a shortnose sturgeon, an idea hits him.
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