Echinoderm
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɪˈkaɪnə(ʊ)ˌdɜːm/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Echinoderm is a noun meaning An animal of the phylum Echinodermata, comprising radially symmetric, spiny-skinned marine animals including seastars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, crinoids, and sand dollars.
Meaning
An animal of the phylum Echinodermata, comprising radially symmetric, spiny-skinned marine animals including seastars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, crinoids, and sand dollars.
Example Sentences
Many echinoderms are still bilateral as larvae, and swim freely in the ocean like baby fish.
Comparatively few additions were therefore made to the previously known Echinoderm-fauna of Brazil, only a single species, a Leptasterias, being with certainty new to science.
Word Forms
- echinoderms
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include echinoid, echinid, echinometrid, echinasterid, euechinoid, echinacean.
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