Shield-like flattened, or branched spine partially covering opesia in some anascans. Figures: Monartron, Tricellaria
The constellation "The Shield"
A shield, any shield, although usually a big square one.
A hard plate or shield on the upper body surface behind the capitulum of hard ticks. The scutum is much more extensive in male than in female ticks.
a modified marginal spine (forked, enlarged, or flattened) which overarches the frontal membrane in the family Scrupocellariidae.
shield (i.e., sign) (Apud Ioannem Petit-Pas, via Iacobaea, sub scuto Venetiarum = At the shop of Jean Petit-Pas, Rue St. Jacques, under the sign of the Venetians)
Scutum is the Latin word for shield, although it has in modern times come to be associated with the standard semi-cylindrical type carried by Roman legionaries. The Republican curved body shield was oval -- as is shown by the Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus in Rome, the Aemilius Paullus monument at Delphi, or an actual example found at Kasr el-Harit in Egypt -- but gradually evolved into a rectangular (or sub-rectangular) shape during the early imperial period.