Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various echinoderms of the class Crinoidea, including the sea lilies and feather stars, that are characterized by a cup-shaped body, feathery radiating arms, and either a stalk or a clawlike structure with which they are able to attach to a surface.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the Crinoidea; containing or consisting of crinoids; encrinital.
- noun One of the Crinoidea; an encrinite; a stone-lily, sea-lily, lily-star, feather-star, or hair-star.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Crinoidal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One of the numerous animals that make up the
Crinoidea class ; the feather star or "sea lily ". - adjective Relating to or sharing the qualities and features of the Crinoidea class.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or belonging to the class Crinoidea
- noun primitive echinoderms having five or more feathery arms radiating from a central disk
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The crinoid is a marine creature whose anus is located next to its mouth.
Archive 2009-11-01 News from Mad Plato 2009
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The crinoid is a marine creature whose anus is located next to its mouth.
COWS MORNING THUNDER AND METHANE GAS News from Mad Plato 2009
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It's in realtime, meaning the little critter is walking along at a fairly brisk pace (for a crinoid, that is).
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It's in realtime, meaning the little critter is walking along at a fairly brisk pace (for a crinoid, that is).
Catch that crinoid! 2005
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Ergo, on the face of it, fossil or no fossil, definitely NOT a "crinoid," agreed.
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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For a detailed commentary that I did at the time in response to Hoagland's article on the alleged "crinoid," see this posting on the Yahoo Cydonia list:
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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It is highly unlikely that it would BE a fossil "crinoid" for the simple a priori reason that Martian flora and fuana assuming they existed would necessarily have followed a completely separate course of evolution from earth species.
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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A search for "crinoid" on that list will bring up other follow-ups.
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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"It is highly unlikely that it would BE a fossil "crinoid" for the simple a priori reason that Martian flora and fuana assuming they existed would necessarily have followed a completely separate course of evolution from earth species.
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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Yes | No | Report from crinoid wrote 6 days 21 hours ago
Why I Hate the Booth Babe Story, a Guest Editorial by Holly A. 2010
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