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Saute vs Scute - What's the difference?

saute | scute |

As a verb saute

is .

As a noun scute is

(zoology) a horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle or the skin of crocodiles.

saute

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cook (food) using a small amount of fat in an open pan over a relatively high heat, allowing the food to brown and form a crust stopping it from sticking to the pan as it cooks.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A dish prepared this way.

    • Declension

    (dish) * Finnish: (trans-mid) (trans-bottom) ----

    scute

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle or the skin of crocodiles.
  • *1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 71:
  • *:Then one afternoon, as he's stripping the scutes and hide from a shortnose sturgeon, an idea hits him.
  • (genetics) A proneural gene, often associated with achaete, that is required for the formation of many larval and adult sense organs
  • (obsolete) A small shield.
    • (Skelton)
  • (historical) An old French gold coin.

    • Synonyms

    * scutum

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