Shute vs Scute - What's the difference?
shute | scute |
(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.
(historical) An old French gold coin.
As nouns the difference between shute and scute
is that shute is while scute is (zoology) a horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle or the skin of crocodiles.scute
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