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- proper noun A taxonomic
class within thesubphylum Pelmatozoa — thecrinoids .
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Examples
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The Crinoidea, in the abundance of stalked forms in the ancient formations as compared with their present rarity, seem to present us with a fair case of modification from a more embryonic towards a less embryonic condition.
Essays 2007
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The Crinoidea, in the abundance of stalked forms in the ancient formations as compared with their present rarity, seem to present us with a fair case of modification from a more embryonic towards a less embryonic condition.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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The Crinoidea, in the abundance of stalked forms in the ancient formations as compared with their present rarity, seem to present us with a fair case of modification from a more embryonic towards a less embryonic condition.
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Crinoidea, * Orthoceraitites, of the family of the Cephalopoda, corals, and, blended with these low organisms, fishes of the most singular forms, imbedded in the upper silurian formations.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Crinoidea is a small class compared to the others in the phylum symmetry.
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