Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of the disks or wheel-like joints of the stem of an encrinite; a wheelstone, screw-stone, or entrochus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Paleon.) A wheel-like joint of the stem of a fossil crinoid.

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  • noun paleontology A wheel-like joint of the stem of a fossil crinoid.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek a wheel.

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