pluteus
Americannoun
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plutei,
plural
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pluteuses
plural
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Origin of pluteus
1825–35; < New Latin; Latin: breastwork, movable shelter
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The words used to designate such fittings are: nidus; forulus, or more usually foruli; loculamenta; pluteus; pegmata.
From The Care of Books by John Willis Clark
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 Frederick John Lazell
It was enclosed in a marble pluteus by Cardinal Orsini, in 1438.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani
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 M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
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 A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward
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 Julius Caesar
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 William Dana Orcutt
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