Echinoderm
//ɪˈkaɪnə(ʊ)ˌdɜːm// noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 An animal of the phylum Echinodermata, comprising radially symmetric, spiny-skinned marine animals including seastars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, crinoids, and sand dollars.
"Comparatively few additions were therefore made to the previously known Echinoderm-fauna of Brazil, only a single species, a Leptasterias, being with certainty new to science."
- 2 marine invertebrates with tube feet and five-part radially symmetrical bodies wordnet
Example
More examples"Comparatively few additions were therefore made to the previously known Echinoderm-fauna of Brazil, only a single species, a Leptasterias, being with certainty new to science."
Etymology
From French échinoderme, corresponding to echino- + -derm, after plural of 18th-century Latin echinoderma.
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