scutum

Meaning of scutum

noun
  1. An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; carried chiefly by the heavy-armed infantry of the Roman army.
  2. A scute.
  3. A shield-like protection, such as the scutum protecting the back of a hard tick (cf. alloscutum, conscutum)
  4. One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.
  5. The kneecap.

Information about scutum

  • It is a name.
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Hyphenation of scutum

scu-tum

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • scutum is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with scutum

utum, Autum, Scutum, acutum, aquascutum, mesoprescutum, mesoscutum, metaprescutum, metascutum, prescutum, pseudoscutum, sputum, verutum, hirsutum, statutum

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