clypeate

Borrowed from Latin clipeātus, perfect passive participle of clipeō (“to arm with a shield”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from clupeus, clipeus (“shield”).

clypeate (comparative more clypeate, superlative most clypeate)

1. (botany) Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.
2. (entomology) Furnished with a protective plate, shield or shell.

• “clypeate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

clypeāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of clypeō