pluteus
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Origin of pluteus
1825–35; < New Latin; Latin: breastwork, movable shelter
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It was enclosed in a marble pluteus by Cardinal Orsini, in 1438.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo
Driesch has found that a tropism underlies the arrangement of the skeleton in the pluteus larvae of the sea-urchin.
From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)
Growing from the side of a stump, the stem of the fawn-colored pluteus bends upwards to the light.
From Some Summer Days in Iowa by Lazell, Frederick John
It is the diminutive of pluteus, a shed or penthouse, from its conical cap.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
In Ag. pluteus, Fr., and Ag. phaiocephalus, Bull, there is already a commencement of the polygonal form, but the angles are much rounded.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
But when that part of the turret which was completed was protected and secured against every attempt of the enemy, they removed the plutei to other works.
From "De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries by Caesar, Julius
Armstrong pointed out to her the plutei upon which the great books rested, and to which they now remained chained as in the olden days, four centuries back, when they began their eternal vigil.
From The Spell by Orcutt, William Dana
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