pluteus

American  

[ploo-tee-uhs] / ˈplu ti əs /

noun

• plutei,
  plural
• pluteuses
  plural

1. the free-swimming, bilaterally symmetrical larva of an echinoid or ophiuroid.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• pluteal
  adjective
• plutean
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• plutei
  plural
• pluteuses
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of pluteus

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

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Example Sentences

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pluteus plutei

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

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 Miron Elisha Hard

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

It was enclosed in a marble pluteus by Cardinal Orsini, in 1438.

From Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani

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

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

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

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