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Definition of Crinoid

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or belonging to the class Crinoidea.

2. Noun. Primitive echinoderms having five or more feathery arms radiating from a central disk.

Definition of Crinoid

1. a. Crinoidal.

Definition of Crinoid

1. Noun. One of the numerous animals that make up the Crinoidea class; the feather star or "sea lily". ¹

2. Adjective. Relating to or sharing the qualities and features of the Crinoidea class. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Crinoid

1. a marine animal [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crinoid

criniviruses crinkle crinkle-root crinkle root crinkled crinkleroot crinkles crinklier crinkliest crinkliness

crinkling crinklings crinkly crinky crinogenic crinoid (current term) crinoidal crinoidean crinoideans crinoids

crinoline crinolined crinolines crinophagy crinose crinosities crinosity crinum crinums criollo

Literary usage of Crinoid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chapters on Evolution by Andrew Wilson (1883)
"As development proceeds, the cup or body of the crinoid is formed, the tentacles or arms bud forth, and the young Feather-star, already stalked (c), ..."

2. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1898)
"An Endophytic Fungus infesting Enlarged crinoid Stems. In 1879 I published a paper, " Observations on the Swollen Condition of Carboniferous crinoid ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1888)
"The crinoid then slowly drew its arms together and held the shell fast until ... He suggests that the process on the anal side was built by the crinoid for ..."

4. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1868)
"... matter of the crinoid could doubtless have passed out under the foot of ... supposing the opening in the crinoid sometimes covered by these shells to ..."

5. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1915)
"By the time the young crinoid is sufficiently calcified to be preserved in the fossil state, the calyx has nearly, if not quite, all the plates which are to ..."

6. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences by Washington Academy of Sciences (1915)
"... pale blue to nearly white in color, and has distinct optical properties. ZOOLOGY.—The geographical divisions of the recent crinoid fauna. ..."

7. Contributions by Chicago (Ill.). University. Walker Museum of Paleontology (1916)
"crinoid calyces, however, are exceedingly rare in the collections, and a single specimen only has come under the observation of the ..."

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