Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- The pedate holothurians, a division of Holothuroidea, having numerous ambulacral feet: distinguished from
Apoda .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) An order of holothurians, including those that have ambulacral suckers, or feet, and an internal gill.
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Examples
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The birdsfoot ivy (pedata) is curious, as it clings to the stones like delicate leaf embroidery, and for shining green leafage but few equal to the one called lucida.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 Various
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In shale and sandy soil, even in the gravel of hillsides, one finds the narrowly divided, finely cut leaves and the bicolored beardless blossom of the Bird's-foot Violet (_V. pedata_), pale bluish purple on the lower petals, dark purple on one or two upper ones, and with a heart of gold.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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REPTILIA pedata, auribus plano-denudatis absque auriculis, variam vitam ex llru£Iura agunt; Tejiudines muniuntur Tclta, Draconc. evolant Alis, Lacertae fugiUnt Pedibus, Kanae ablconduntur Locc nec oranes Vcncno prorfus carent, ut Gecko et Gcitje,
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"You see I grow several members of the viola pedata family, bird's foot, snake, and wood violet, and three of the odorata, English, marsh, and sweet, for our big drug houses.
The Harvester 1911
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"You see I grow several members of the viola pedata family, bird's foot, snake, and wood violet, and three of the odorata, English, marsh, and sweet, for our big drug houses.
The Harvester Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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■ ciniis oblongis acutis serratis. t; W.P. fronde pedata, foliolis bipinnatilidis, l? ftera - libus tripartitis.
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