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pluteus
[ ploo-tee-uhs ]
noun
- 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
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Example Sentences
Through these the eggs are discharged into the water, where they become free-swimming larv, called Pluteus.
The smallest fragment which is capable of reaching the pluteus stage possesses the mass of about one-eighth of the whole egg.
Pluteus, a free-swimming larval stage in the development of echinoderms, 54.
It grew abundantly there, along with Lepiota Americana and Pluteus cervinus.
The presence of lateral arms is however a distinctive characteristic of the Ophiuroid Pluteus.
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