Dictionary Entry
scutum
scutum is a 6-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; -- carried chiefly by the heavy-armed infantry. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 14 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; -- carried chiefly by the heavy-armed infantry.
- 2noun
A penthouse or awning.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.
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