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How to use scute in a sentence

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The higher estimate was based on growth curves from scute rings, which may have underestimated carapace growth, and a minimum size of females with eggs of 155 mm.
This spear, called the gular scute, had once put someone in mind of a plow.
Their shells seemed to glow, each scute deep gold, hexagonal, in a dark-brown frame.
They found that the isotopic composition was similar to that of loggerhead scute.
As they describe in Biology Letters, they analyzed samples of scute — the hard substance that protects the turtles' bony shells.
The plastron is full coverage, has a lateral hinge just ahead of the bridge and is usually yellow with a black blotch in the outer posterior corner of each scute.
A secondary goal was to determine whether bacterial abundance differed between scute centers and sulci.
One was lacking a gular scute — it had been sawed off.
Like a person's fingernails, a turtle's scute is made of keratin.
In addition, we engraved a number into the first vertebral scute.
Scute counts also decline significantly from proximal to distal, with minimal overlap.
Examples from Classical Literature
Nor could I satisfy myself that the margins of the scute were continuous with the surrounding bundles of connective tissue.
Contrasting pale and dark areas of the germinal layer correspond to the pattern of markings on the scute removed.
The new layer is thin and indistinct under the oldest part of the scute but becomes more distinct toward its periphery.
There is little actual increase in thickness of the scute after the first three or four years of growth.
This crest always subsides before it reaches the anterior margin of the scute, though it may extend beyond the posterior margin.
Its highest point is always behind the centre of the scute, and is devoid of sculpture.
From before backwards, the inner surface of the scute is a little convex.
They are mere dips or depressions in the surface of the scute.
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