pluteus

[ ploo-tee-uhs ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural plu·te·i [ploo, -tee-ahy], plu·te·us·es.

Origin of pluteus¹

1825–35; < New Latin; Latin: breastwork, movable shelter

Through these the eggs are discharged into the water, where they become free-swimming larv, called Pluteus.

The smallest fragment which is capable of reaching the pluteus stage possesses the mass of about one-eighth of the whole egg.

Pluteus, a free-swimming larval stage in the development of echinoderms, 54.

It grew abundantly there, along with Lepiota Americana and Pluteus cervinus.

The presence of lateral arms is however a distinctive characteristic of the Ophiuroid Pluteus.

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