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Marine invertebrates with tube feet and calcite-covered five-part radially symmetrical bodies
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echinoderm
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any member of the Echinodermata, a group of radially symmetric, spiny-skinned marine animals. Examples of echinoderms include seastars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, crinoids, and sand dollars.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. marine invertebrates with tube feet and calcite-covered five-part radially symmetrical bodies
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Echinoderm \E*chin"o*derm`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of the Echinodermata.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1834, from Modern Latin Echinodermata , name of the phylum that includes starfish and sea urchins, from Latinized form of Greek ekhinos "sea urchin," originally "porcupine, hedgehog" (see echidna ) + derma (genitive dermatos ) "skin" (see derma ); so called ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Echinoderm is the common name given to any member of the Phylum Echinodermata (from Ancient Greek , ἐχῖνος, echinos – "hedgehog" and δέρμα, derma – "skin") of marine animals . The adults are recognizable by their (usually five-point) radial symmetry , and ...
Usage examples of echinoderm.
Then it was on the radiates, echinoderms, acalephes, polypes, entozoons, sponges, and infusoria, that he had for such a long time burned the midnight oil?
Some kind of highly developed giant nematode or land-based echinoderm, he decided as he turned to examine the motionless carcass.
Beyond them lay slopes of some blackish slag-like material which were dotted with lovely coloured creatures, holothurians, ascidians, echini and echinoderms, as thickly as ever an English spring time bank was sprinkled with hyacinths and primroses.
A thousand beautiful ascidians and echinoderms of every joyous colour and fantastic shape peeped out from amid this herbage, which was alive with strange crustaceans and low forms of creeping life.
I see the free-swimming larvae of the echinoderms developing into the radially-symmetrical forms of adulthood.
The creature displayed qualities reminiscent of both coelenterate and echinoderm.