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What is a scutellum?

What is a scutellum? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of several shield-shaped structures in insects, grasses etc
    1. (lichenology) A rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens.
    2. (zoology) The third of the four pieces forming the upper part of a thoracic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the small postscutellum.
    3. (zoology) One of the transverse scales on the tarsi and toes of birds.
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The embryo is comprised of the embryonic axis, a single cotyledon, containing the first true leaves, and the scutellum.
The embryogenetic process allows the formation of a well-differentiated embryonic axis, surrounded by a single massive cotyledon, the scutellum.
This reward-lacking orchid is pollinated either by workers or drones of Apis cerana japonica which fix pollinaria on the scutellum.
Early studies on sucrose mobilization from the vacuole of germinating maize scutellum cells alluded to the likely possibility of SuSy being tonoplast associated.
The suture is the internal margin of the elytrum from the point of the scutellum to the end.
Then, the arcuate viscidium firmly embraces and adheres on the bee scutellum and the pollinarium is removed.

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