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A small shield. [Obs.] Skelton.

See Scutellum.

Formed like a plate or salver; composed of platelike surfaces; as, the scutellated bone of a sturgeon. Woodward.

the entire covering, or mode of arrangement, of scales, as on the legs and feet of a bird.

Scutellate.

Having broad scutella on the front, and small scales on the posterior side, of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds.

a thoracic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the small postscutellum; a scutella. See Thorax.

Without, or apparently without, a scutellum; -- said of certain insects.

The hindermost dorsal piece of a thoracic somite of an insect; the plate behind the scutellum.

Blind buckler (Naut.), a solid buckler. -- Buckler mustard (Bot.), a genus of plants (Biscutella) with small bright yellow flowers. The seed vessel on bursting resembles two bucklers or shields. -- Buckler thorn, a plant with seed vessels shaped like a buckler. See Christ's thorn. -- Riding buckler (Naut.), a buckl…

Having the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus on the inner side; -- said of certain birds.

Having the anterior scute

An owl of India (Ninox scutellatus). -- Hawk's bill (Horology), the pawl for the rack, in the striking mechanism of a clock.

Having a single series of large scutes on the posterior side of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds.

oöl.), the European bullfinch. -- Plum gouger (Zoöl.), a weevil, or curculio (Coccotorus scutellaris), which destroys plums. It makes round holes in the pulp, for the reception of its eggs. The larva bores into the stone and eats the kernel. -- Plum weevil (Zoöl.), an American weevil which is very destructive to plum…

Having the anterior surface of the tarsus covered with scutella, or transverse scales, in the form of incomplete bands terminating at a groove on each side; -- said of certain birds.

e of a thoracic segment of an insect. It is preceded by the prescutum and followed by the scutellum. See the Illust. under Thorax.

Any plant of the labiate genus Scutellaria, the calyx of whose flower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised.

Having the posterior tarsal scales, or scutella, rectangular and arranged in regular rows; -- said of certain birds.

overed with wartlike tubercles or spinose scales, and lacking cephalic plates and ventral scutes. -- Wart spurge (Bot.), a kind of wartwort (Euphorbia Helioscopia).