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Definition of Echinoids
1. echinoid [n] - See also: echinoid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Echinoids
Literary usage of Echinoids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Secession; Or, Despotism and Democracy at Necessary by Thomas Shepard Goodwin (1865)
"THE ORDER OF echinoids, OR SEA-URCHINS. THE Order of echinoids contains echinoderms
which have a more or less spherical or discoidal shell composed of ..."
2. Natural History: A Manual of Zoology for Schools, Colleges, and the General by Sanborn Tenney (1872)
"THE ORDER OF echinoids, OR SEA-URCHINS. THE Order of echinoids contains echinoderms
which have a more or less spherical or discoidal shell composed of ..."
3. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1911)
"The observations of Baltzer ('09) seem to have led to an immediate conclusion
that in echinoids the female is the hetero- gametic sex while the male is ..."
4. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1894)
"The anal opening in the Regular echinoids (Fig. 441) is in the opposite or dorsal
area or center of radiation. Around the dorsal area there are 5 minute ..."