Definition of Blastoid

1. n. One of the Blastoidea.

Definition of Blastoid

1. Noun. (zoology) One of the Blastoidea. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Blastoid

1. an extinct bud form [n -S]

Medical Definition of Blastoid

1. One of the Blastoidea. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blastoid

blastodermatic
blastodermic
blastodermic disk
blastodermic ectoderm
blastodermic layers
blastodermic vesicle
blastoderms
blastodisc
blastodiscs
blastodisk
blastoff
blastoffs
blastogenesis
blastogenetic
blastogenic
blastoid (current term)
blastoidea
blastoids
blastolysis
blastolytic
blastoma
blastomas
blastomata
blastomere
blastomeres
blastomeric
blastomerotomy
blastomogenic
blastomyces
blastomycete

Literary usage of Blastoid

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 by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1886)
"On the other hand, the blastoid genus Cadaster has neither spiracles nor ambulacral pores; ... has been variously described as a Crinoid, blastoid and ..."

2. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1904)
"... it is the first time that such a body has been observed on a blastoid. ... seriously object to the attempt to throw out all blastoid names ending in ..."

3. An Introduction to the Study of Fossils (plants and Animals) by Hervey Woodburn Shimer (1914)
"If the comparison is made with considerable latitude, the arms of the starfish and crinoid are homologous to the ambulacra of the cystoid, blastoid and ..."

4. The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton (1921)
"To the echinoderms there is now added the blastoid (bud- shaped). The blastoid is stemmed and armless, and its globular " head " or " calyx," with its five ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"It has not been possible to transmit EBV to cultures of cells other than leukocytes (4) or blastoid cells of EBV-free lines (5). ..."

6. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1900)
"... Etheridge & Carpenter (1883) and SA Miller as a blastoid; Dujardin & Hupe ' (1862) and Hall (1851) as a crinoid; Zittel (1879) as doubtfully a blastoid. ..."

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