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

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)

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

From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo

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

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)