Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling a crinoid of the genus Pentacrinus; pentamerous, as a crinoid: said also of other sea-lilies: as, the pentacrinoid larval form of
Comatula . - noun A pentacrinoid crinoid; a member of the Pentacrinoidea.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) An immature comatula when it is still attached by a stem, and thus resembles a Pentacrinus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology An
immature comatula when it is still attached by astem .
Etymologies
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Pentacrinus + -oid
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