pluteus

American  

[ploo-tee-uhs] / ˈplu ti əs /

noun

plural

plutei, pluteuses

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

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Other Word Forms

• pluteal adjective
• plutean adjective

Etymology

Origin of pluteus

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

Example Sentences

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

From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo

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

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)

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