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Definition of Ophiuroid
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ophiuroid
Literary usage of Ophiuroid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"ophiuroid. after Miiller.) The formation of the permanent ophiuroid takes place in
... PLUTEUS LARVA OK AN (From Gegenbaur; A. rudiment of young ophiuroid ..."
2. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1900)
"ophiuroid (Fig. XIII. p. 261) resembles a starfish in which there is a sharp ...
238, however, no sharp line can be drawn between Asteroid and ophiuroid ..."
3. Monograph on the British Fossil Echinodermata from the Cretaceous Formations by Walter Percy Sladen, William Kingdon Spencer, Thomas Wright (1880)
"The combination of ophiuroid disk- and arm-structure within a pentagonal Asteroid
form of body. 2. The character of the ambulacral system is Asteroid : the ..."
4. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1906)
"Closer inspection shows that in the ophiuroid the arms are continued inwards
along grooves, which run on the under surface of the disc, and that they ..."
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