|
|
Definition of Ophiuran
1. a. Of or pertaining to the Ophiurioidea.
Definition of Ophiuran
1. Adjective. (zoology) Of or relating to the Ophiurioidea. ¹
2. Noun. (zoology) Any member of the Ophiurioidea. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ophiuran
1. ophiura [n -S] - See also: ophiura
Medical Definition of Ophiuran
1.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ophiuran
Literary usage of Ophiuran
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1916)
"In the summer of 1910, the beach was at first abundantly supplied with small
areas among rocks covered with fine sand, and this ophiuran was found very ..."
2. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1895)
"Like the arms of the starfish, those of the ophiuran grow at the tips, with the
exception of the terminal pieces, which correspond to the skeletal pieces ..."
3. Methods of Study in Natural History by Louis Agassiz (1887)
"... Sea- Urchin, Star-Fish, ophiuran, and Crinoid — with the oral or mouth side
downward, for instance, we shall see immediately that the small area at the ..."
4. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1879)
"It may be possible, however, that the ophiuran has no photogenic structures, and
that the light is the product of foreign animal substances which have ..."
5. The Standard Natural History by John Sterling Kingsley, Frederich Anton Heller von Hellwald, Elliott Coues (1884)
"The young has at first a flat disc covered with plates like that of au ordinary
ophiuran, this first becomes covered a close granulation ; then both the ..."
6. A Text-book of Invertebrate Morphology by James Playfair McMurrich (1896)
"The mode of development of the young ophiuran from this larva resembles closely
that described for the Asteroidea. CLASS IV. ECHINOIDEA. ..."
Other Resources:
