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- English Word Pluteuses Definition of Pluteus
- English Word Pluto Definition The son of Saturn and Rhea, brother of Jupiter and Neptune; the dark and gloomy god of the Lower World.
- English Word Plutocracy Definition A form of government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the wealthy classes; government by the rich; also, a controlling or influential class of rich men.
- English Word Plutocrat Definition One whose wealth gives him power or influence; one of the plutocracy.
- English Word Plutocratic Definition Of or pertaining to plutocracy; as, plutocratic ideas.
- English Word Plutology Definition The science which treats of wealth.
- English Word Plutonian Definition Plutonic.
- English Word Plutonian Definition A Plutonist.
- English Word Plutonic Definition Of or pertaining to Pluto; Plutonian; hence, pertaining to the interior of the earth; subterranean.
- English Word Plutonic Definition Of, pertaining to, or designating, the system of the Plutonists; igneous; as, the Plutonic theory.
- English Word Plutonism Definition The theory, early advanced in geology, that the successive rocks of the earth's crust were formed by igneous fusion; -- opposed to the Neptunian theory.
- English Word Plutonist Definition One who adopts the geological theory of igneous fusion; a Plutonian. See Plutonism.
- English Word Plutus Definition The son of Jason and Ceres, and the god of wealth. He was represented as bearing a cornucopia, and as blind, because his gifts were bestowed without discrimination of merit.
- English Word Pluvial Definition Of or pertaining to rain; rainy.
- English Word Pluvial Definition Produced by the action of rain.
- English Word Pluvial Definition A priest's cope.
- English Word Pluviameter Definition See Pluviometer.
- English Word Pluviametrical Definition See Pluviometrical.
- English Word Pluvian Definition The crocodile bird.
- English Word Pluviometer Definition An instrument for ascertaining the amount of rainfall at any place in a given time; a rain gauge.