What is the free-swimming larva of sea urchins and ophiurans, having several long stiff processes inclosing calcareous rods called?
pluteus — The free-swimming larva of sea urchins and ophiurans, having several long stiff processes inclosing calcareous rods. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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