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Definition of Holothurians
1. holothurian [n] - See also: holothurian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Holothurians
Literary usage of Holothurians
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Contribution to American Thalassography: Three Cruises of the United by Alexander Agassiz, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (1888)
"holothurians. THE order of Apoda among holothurians has neither pedicels nor suckers,
... The calcareous deposits resemble those of the larval holothurians, ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1902)
"These bilateral holothurians first became known by the dredgings of the Challenger,
and formed one of the most important additions to our knowledge of ..."
3. Natural History of Animals: Containing Brief Descriptions of the Animals by Sanborn Tenney (1875)
"... this number is generally five; that is, the parts of each kind are five, or
some multiple of five. holothurians. The holothurians, or Sea-Cucumbers, ..."
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