pluteus
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Origin of pluteus
1825–35; < New Latin; Latin: breastwork, movable shelter
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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)
The words used to designate such fittings are: nidus; forulus, or more usually foruli; loculamenta; pluteus; pegmata.
From The Care of Books by Clark, John Willis
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
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