Each scute is a nearly square bony plate, deeply pitted or sculptured, and marked by a strong ridge on its dorsal surface, while its ventral surface is smooth.
Corresponding to each dermal scute is an epidermal plate.
The account is in the words of Juet, as follows: "In the morning we manned our scute with four muskets and six men, and took one of their shallops and brought it aboard.
Then we manned our boat and scute with twelve men and muskets, and two stone pieces, or murderers, and drave the salvages from their houses, and took the spoil of them, as they would have done of us.
The smooth inner surfaces of the scute shelve towards a depression which corresponds with the external ridge, under which the sides of the scute seem to meet in an angle.
From before backwards, the inner surface of the scuteis a little convex.
Nor could I satisfy myself that the margins of the scute were continuous with the surrounding bundles of connective tissue.
Stratification is most evident in the part of the scute that was formed in the first three or four seasons and becomes increasingly less distinct in newer parts of the scute.
A scute that shows a single season of growth has two layers; a new layer is added in each subsequent season of growth.
The inner wall of each groove is the peripheral edge of the part of the scutelast formed whereas the outer wall represents the inner edge of the next new area of epidermal growth.
The Relative Lengths of Abdominal Scute and Plastron are not Significantly Different in the Five Groups.
In species that periodically shed scutes a zone of fracture develops between the old and new layers of the scute as each new layer of epidermis is formed, and the old layer is shed.
There is little actual increase in thickness of thescute after the first three or four years of growth.
Contrasting pale and dark areas of the germinal layer correspond to the pattern of markings on the scute removed.
The layer of scute exposed was smooth and had yellow markings that were only slightly less distinct than those on the portion that was exfoliating.
The phenomenon is here considered to be a specialization of scute shedding--developed in terrestrial and semiterrestrial chelonians--that provides additional protection to the shell against wear and minor injuries.
It is noteworthy that any of the layers in the scute of a box turtle can form the cornified surface of the scute when the layers above it wear away or are shed.
They remind us of those Infusoria which, like Brachionus, are covered by a scute or shield.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scute" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: armor; carapace; cortex; mail; plate; scale; shell; shield; test
