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n. (plural of scute English)
Usage examples of "scutes".
Both shells had split open down the front, along the line of weakness where the ventral scutes joined.
Aiken flung himself prone onto the gaudy cobbled hide and clung to a pair of scutes with a death-grip.
Concave scutes decorated his spine and not incidentally provided smooth seats for any who might choose to ride there.
Using the spaces between the iron scutes for steps, they scampered up his flank and settled into the concave metal “seats” along his spine.
His iron scutes clanged violently, sounding the bells of the Church of the Contumacious Rhinoceros.
Dark-green scales armored his upper body from end to end, amber scutes his throat and belly.
He was clad merely in his scales and scutes, unless you counted the purse, rosary, and spectacles hung from his neck.