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Echinoderm

//ɪˈkaɪnə(ʊ)ˌdɜːm// noun

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Noun
  1. 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. 2
    marine invertebrates with tube feet and five-part radially symmetrical bodies wordnet

Etymology

From French échinoderme, corresponding to echino- + -derm, after plural of 18th-century Latin echinoderma.

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