Definitions for pluteus

pluteus plu·te·us

Spelling: [ploo-tee-uh s]
IPA: /ˈplu ti əs/

Pluteus is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 132 anagrams from letters in pluteus (elpstuu).

Definitions for pluteus

noun

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

Origin of pluteus

1825-35; New Latin; Latin: breastwork, movable shelter

Examples for pluteus

The recorded species of pluteus have their habitat on tree stumps, sawdust, or upon fallen timber.

The full-grown larva of the Ophiuroids is known as a pluteus.

Octopyle obtecta bears therefore the same relation to Octopyle octostyle that Tetrapyle pluteus does to Tetrapyle octacantha.

One species, pluteus cervinus, is recorded as edible, but not specially commended.

The smallest fragment which is capable of reaching the pluteus stage possesses the mass of about one-eighth of the whole egg.

Driesch has found that a tropism underlies the arrangement of the skeleton in the pluteus larvae of the sea-urchin.

It is the diminutive of pluteus, a shed or penthouse, from its conical cap.

(an abbreviation of pluteus, press), with the number and shelf.

The name of pluteus was given generally to all kinds of covering with hurdles or with skins.

The recorded edible species are found in Volvaria, Clitopilus, and pluteus.

Word Value for pluteus
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