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Acetabulifera
n. pl. · 78% connection
The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dib…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, ambulacra, avenuelike, ossicles, plates.
Adambulacral
adjective · 78% connection
Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, ambulacra, avenuelike, ossicles, plates.
Ambulacriform
adjective · 78% connection
Having the form of ambulacra.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, ambulacra, avenuelike, ossicles, plates.
Aplacophora
n. pl. · 78% connection
A division of Amphineura in which the body is naked or covered with slender spines or setae, but is without shelly plates.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, ambulacra, avenuelike, ossicles, plates.
Apodes
n. pl. · 78% connection
A group of holothurians destitute of suckers. See Apneumona.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, ambulacra, avenuelike, ossicles, plates.
Aristotle's lantern
unknown · 78% connection
The five united jaws and accessory ossicles of certain sea urchins.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, ambulacra, avenuelike, ossicles, plates.
Bivium
noun · 78% connection
One side of an echinoderm, including a pair of ambulacra, in distinction from the opposite side (trivium), which includes three ambula…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, ambulacra, avenuelike, ossicles, plates.
Cassowary
noun · 78% connection
A large bird, of the genus Casuarius, found in the east Indies. It is smaller and stouter than the ostrich. Its head is armed with a k…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, ambulacra, avenuelike, ossicles, plates.
Cataphracted
adjective · 78% connection
Covered with a cataphract, or armor of plates, scales, etc.; or with that which corresponds to this, as horny or bony plates, hard, ca…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, ambulacra, avenuelike, ossicles, plates.
Cuttlefish
noun · 78% connection
A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, ambulacra, avenuelike, ossicles, plates.
Dibranchiata
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of cephalopods which includes those with two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, ambulacra, avenuelike, ossicles, plates.
Die
noun · 78% connection
A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, ambulacra, avenuelike, ossicles, plates.
Distoma
noun · 78% connection
A genus of parasitic, trematode worms, having two suckers for attaching themselves to the part they infest. See 1st Fluke, 2.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, ambulacra, avenuelike, ossicles, plates.
Echinoidea
n. pl. · 78% connection
The class Echinodermata which includes the sea urchins. They have a calcareous, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, compos…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, ambulacra, avenuelike, ossicles, plates.
Enopla
n. pl. · 78% connection
One of the orders of Nemertina, characterized by the presence of a peculiar armature of spines or plates in the proboscis.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, ambulacra, avenuelike, ossicles, plates.
Fin
noun · 78% connection
An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, ambulacra, avenuelike, ossicles, plates.
Fluke
noun · 78% connection
A parasitic trematode worm of several species, having a flat, lanceolate body and two suckers. Two species (Fasciola hepatica and Dist…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, ambulacra, avenuelike, ossicles, plates.
Hedgehog
noun · 78% connection
A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europaeus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, ambulacra, avenuelike, ossicles, plates.
