Definitions

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  • proper noun obsolete A polyphyletic former genus
  • proper noun obsolete A grouping that includes Antedon and related genera. When young they are fixed by a stem. When adult they become detached and cling to seaweeds, etc., by their dorsal cirri.

Etymologies

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From Latin comatulus having hair neatly curled, diminutive from coma hair.

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Examples

  • Crinoid are exceedingly different from the corresponding organs of a larval 'Comatula'; and it might with perfect justice be argued that

    Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • But then, on careful consideration of the facts, the objection arises that the stalk, calyx, and arms of the paleozoic Crinoid are exceedingly different from the corresponding organs of a larval ‘Comatula’; and it might with perfect justice be argued that ‘Actinocrinus’ and

    Essays 2007

  • Comatula’, as ‘Comatula’ itself does in the other.

    Essays 2007

  • There were several small sponges and _Alcyonia_, seaweeds of two or three species, two species of _Comatula_, and one of _Aphiura_, of the most vivid colours and markings, and many small, flat, round corals, something like _Nummulites_ in external appearance.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various

  • The modern Crinoid without stem, or the Comatula, though agreeing with the ancient in all the essential elements of structure, differs from it in some specific features.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

  • Pedunculated Crinoid, the earliest representative of its Class, or into a Comatula, one of the free animals that represent the Crinoids in our day.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

  • 'Actinocrinus' and 'Eucalyptocrinus', for example, depart to the full as widely, in one direction, from the stalked embryo of 'Comatula', as

    Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • Crinoid are exceedingly different from the corresponding organs of a larval _Comatula_; and it might with perfect justice be argued that

    Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • _Actinocrinus_ and _Eucalyptocrinus_, for example, depart to the full as widely, in one direction, from the stalked embryo of _Comatula_, as

    Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

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