scutums

It is well stored with implements of offence and defence—mangonels, balistas, arbalists, rams—cranes for repairing breaches—lances, javelins, swords, axes, shields, scutums, pavises, armor—timber for ships—cressets for night work—ironmonger machines—arquebuses, but of antique patterns—quarrels and arrows in countless sheaves—bows of every style.

1893, Lew Wallace, “Count Corti to Mahommed”, in The Prince of India; or, Why Constantinople Fell, volume II, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers Publishers, book V (Mirza), page 316

The scutums of 5 nymphs gave the following measurements in mm.:[…]

1908, George H. F. Nuttall, Cecil Warburton, W. F. Cooper, L. E. Robinson, Ticks: A Monograph of the Ixodoidea, Cambridge: at the University Press, page 497

[…]no similarly situated dark spot is observable in the scutums of the closely allied species A. hebraeum, A. cohaerens, etc.

1921, Parasitology, Cambridge: at the University Press, page 5

Plate 1.—Photomicrographs of scutums of T. microti and T. bisignata.

1950, The American Midland Naturalist, page 194

2. The ornate scutums and the festoons in the Ixodidæ. 3. The extent of the scutums in male and female Ixodidæ.

1960, John Hendrick Whitlock, Diagnosis of Veterinary Parasitisms, Lea & Febiger, page 62