scutelliplantar

English

Etymology

From Latin scutellus (“a shield”) + planta (“foot”).

Adjective

scutelliplantar (not comparable)

(zoology, of birds) Having broad scutella on the front, and small scales on the posterior side, of the tarsus.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scutelliplantar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)