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- noun Plural form of
pedicellaria .
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Examples
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But here it might be argued, on the other hand, that the spheroidal Echinoids, in reality, depart further from the general plan and from the embryonic form than the elongated Spatangoids do; and that the peculiar dental apparatus and the pedicellariae of the former are marks of at least as great differentiation as the petaloid ambulacra and semitae of the latter.
Essays 2007
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But, as far as structure is concerned, I can see no similarity between tridactyle pedicellariae and avicularia.
VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection 1909
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All possible gradations, as he adds, may likewise be found between the pedicellariae of the star-fishes and the hooks of the ophiurians, another group of Echinodermata; and again between the pedicellariae of sea-urchins and the anchors of the Holothuriæ, also belonging to the same great class.
VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection 1909
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But here it might be argued, on the other hand, that the spheroidal Echinoids, in reality, depart further from the general plan and from the embryonic form than the elongated Spatangoids do; and that the peculiar dental apparatus and the pedicellariae of the former are marks of at least as great differentiation as the petaloid ambulacra and semitae of the latter.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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