Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
Pentacrinus .
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The pentacrinites, the lowest of the echinoderms, have only one living representative in tropical America, where we find at the same time the highest and largest spatangi and holothuridae.
Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885
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It is a soft, earthy marl, and is made up of fragments of corals, shells, crinoid's or pentacrinites, with sand mechanically mixed.
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The pentacrinites, the lowest of the echinoderms, have only one living representative in tropical
Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence Louis Agassiz 1840
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Where are you? "he cried; and he looked about the place, up and down, but to all appearances, he was in a _cul de sac_, whose walls were dotted with the fossil stems of _pentacrinites_, over which stalagmitic petrifaction had gradually formed, looking as if dirty water had run over the walls in places, and hardened in the course of time to stone.
The Black Tor A Tale of the Reign of James the First George Manville Fenn 1870
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