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 theirdorsal cirri .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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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
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‘Comatula’, as ‘Comatula’ itself does in the other.
Essays 2007
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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
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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.
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Pedunculated Crinoid, the earliest representative of its Class, or into a Comatula, one of the free animals that represent the Crinoids in our day.
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'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
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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
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_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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