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pluteus
[ ploo-tee-uhs ]
noun
, plural plu·te·i [ploo, -tee-ahy], plu·te·us·es.
- the free-swimming, bilaterally symmetrical larva of an echinoid or ophiuroid.
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Other Words From
- plute·al plute·an adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pluteus1
1825–35; < New Latin; Latin: breastwork, movable shelter
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Example Sentences
Through these the eggs are discharged into the water, where they become free-swimming larv, called Pluteus.
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The smallest fragment which is capable of reaching the pluteus stage possesses the mass of about one-eighth of the whole egg.
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Pluteus, a free-swimming larval stage in the development of echinoderms, 54.
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It grew abundantly there, along with Lepiota Americana and Pluteus cervinus.
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The presence of lateral arms is however a distinctive characteristic of the Ophiuroid Pluteus.
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