Pluteus

How To Use Pluteus In A Sentence

• Growing from the side of a stump, the stem of the fawn-colored pluteus bends upwards to the light. Some Summer Days in Iowa
• One widely-mooted suggestion is that planktotrophic larvae, typified by the annelidan trochophore and echinoid pluteus, existed long before the metazoan radiations evident in the Cambrian fossil record.
• The words used to designate such fittings are: _nidus_; _forulus_, or more usually _foruli_; _loculamenta_; _pluteus_; _pegmata_. The Care of Books
• Another striking example of metamorphosis is the transformation of the pluteus stage larva of the sea urchin into the adult.
• In an analogous manner the deciduous, pluteus-condition of the young Echinoderm perishes and is absorbed by the growing body of the permanent adult stage. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
• One widely-mooted suggestion is that planktotrophic larvae, typified by the annelidan trochophore and echinoid pluteus, existed long before the metazoan radiations evident in the Cambrian fossil record.
• This investigation has shewn that three of the words applied to the preservation of books, namely, _nidus_, _forulus_, and _loculamentum_, may be rendered by the English "pigeon-hole"; and that _pegma_ and _pluteus_ mean contrivances of wood which may be rendered by the English "shelving. The Care of Books
• In the case of a bed used for two persons, the two sides were distinguished by different names; the side at which they entered was open, and was called ‘sponda:’ the other side, which was protected by a board, was called ‘pluteus.’ The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations
• Free-swimming echinopluteus sea urchin (Echinocardium cordatum) larva feeds on microplankton captured with its ciliated arms. Plankton
• It was enclosed in a marble _pluteus_ by Cardinal Orsini, in 1438. Pagan and Christian Rome