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pluteus

pluteus noun: a low screen between columns, especially one that surrounds the choir of a church.

Noun

pluteus (plural pluteuses or plutei)

  1. A low screen between columns, especially one that surrounds the choir of a church
  2. The free-swimming larvae of echinoderms.

pluteus meaning in Tamil

pluteus in Tamil

மருங்கிளரி

Forms of pluteus

pluralpluteuses
pluralplutei

Origin of pluteus

Borrowed from Latin pluteus.

Words formed from pluteus

Questions about pluteus

What does pluteus mean?
Pluteus means a low screen between columns, especially one that surrounds the choir of a church.
What is pluteus in Tamil?
Pluteus in Tamil is மருங்கிளரி. See Pluteus meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pluteus?
Pluteus is a noun.
What is the plural of pluteus?
The plural of pluteus is pluteuses.

Words near pluteus in the dictionary

  1. plutei
  2. plutellid
  3. plutellids
  4. pluterperfect
  5. plutes
  6. pluteus
  7. pluteuses
  8. plutey
  9. plutino
  10. plutinos
  11. pluto

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pluteus (page history and authors); pluteus (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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