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Crinoid   Listen
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Crinoid  n.  (Zool.) One of the Crinoidea.






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"Crinoid" Quotes from Famous Books



... any two pieces must be very limited, the entire column acquires more or less flexibility, allowing the organism as a whole to wave backwards and forwards on its stalk. Into the exquisite minutioe of structure by which the innumerable parts entering into the composition of a single Crinoid are adapted for their proper purposes in the economy of the animal, it is impossible to enter here. No period, as before said, has yielded examples of greater beauty than the Upper Silurian, the principal ...
— The Ancient Life History of the Earth • Henry Alleyne Nicholson



Words linked to "Crinoid" :   comatulid, echinoderm, feather star, class Crinoidea



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