scutums
📖 中文释义
- (scutum 的复数) n. 长形盾, 鳞甲
- [医] 鼓室盾板, 甲状软骨, 髌骨, 盾片(昆虫)
🔗 释义中的汉语词
🧩 词形变化
原形 scutum
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- plural of scutum
- n. An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with
- leather, with sometimes an iron rim; -- carried chiefly by the
- heavy-armed infantry.
- n. A penthouse or awning.
- n. 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.
- n. One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.