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Lily-shaped
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crinoid
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. primitive echinoderms having five or more feathery arms radiating from a central disk
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crinoid \Cri"noid\ (kr[imac]"noid), a. [See Crinoidea .] (Zo["o]l.) Crinoidal. -- n. One of the Crinoidea.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Crinoids are marine animals that make up the class Crinoidea of the echinoderms (phylum Echinodermata). The name comes from the Greek word krinon , "a lily", and eidos , "form". They live both in shallow water and in depths as great as . Those crinoids ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1836, Latinized from Greek krinoeides "lily-like," from krinon "lily" (a foreign word of unknown origin) + -oeides "like" (see -oid ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Relating to or sharing the qualities and features of the Crinoidea class. n. One of the numerous animals that make up the Crinoidea class; the feather star or "sea lily".
Usage examples of crinoid.
The beings moved in the sea partly by swimming - using the lateral crinoid arms - and partly by wriggling with the lower tier of tentacles containing the pseudofeet.
The many slender tentacles into which the crinoid arms branched were infinitely delicate, flexible, strong, and accurate in muscular-nervous coordination - ensuring the utmost skill and dexterity in all artistic and other manual operations.
I saw also the ruins of incredible sunken cities, and the wealth of crinoid, brachiopod, coral, and ichthyic life which everywhere abounded.
It was treasured and placed in its curious box by the crinoid things of Antarctica, salvaged from their ruins by the serpent-men of Valusia, and peered at aeons later in Lemuria by the first human beings.