Usually means: Having scales shaped like shields.
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  1. scutellate: Merriam-Webster
  2. scutellate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. scutellate: Collins English Dictionary
  4. scutellate: Wordnik
  5. scutellate: Wiktionary
  6. scutellate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. scutellate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. scutellate: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. scutellate: Dictionary.com
  10. Scutellate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Scutellate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. scutellate: FreeDictionary.org
  13. scutellate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. scutellate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (scutellate)

▸ adjective:  (botany) saucer-shaped
▸ adjective:  (zoology) Having the tarsi covered with broad transverse scales, or scutella, as in certain birds.

Similar:
scutelliform, acetabuliform, scyphiform, disciform, hypocrateriform, hypocraterimorphous, scrobiculate, circumscissile, scapiform, peltate, more...

Opposite:
convex, smooth, flat, planar, level

Types:
hedgehog, porcupine, more...

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Similar:
scutelliform, acetabuliform, scyphiform, disciform, hypocrateriform, hypocraterimorphous, scrobiculate, circumscissile, scapiform, peltate, more...

Opposite:
convex, smooth, flat, planar, level

Types:
hedgehog, porcupine, more...



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