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Ambulacral
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, amphineura, body, naked, covered.
Anaptychus
noun · 78% connection
One of a pair of shelly plates found in some cephalopods, as the ammonites.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, amphineura, body, naked, covered.
Aphrodite
noun · 78% connection
The Greek goddess of love, corresponding to the Venus of the Romans.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, amphineura, body, naked, covered.
Aptychus
noun · 78% connection
A shelly plate found in the terminal chambers of ammonite shells. Some authors consider them to be jaws; others, opercula.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, amphineura, body, naked, covered.
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: division, amphineura, body, naked, covered.
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: division, amphineura, body, naked, covered.
Chaetopoda
n. pl. · 78% connection
A very extensive order of Annelida, characterized by the presence of lateral setae, or spines, on most or all of the segments. They ar…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, amphineura, body, naked, covered.
Corona
noun · 78% connection
A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, amphineura, body, naked, covered.
Dichotomy
noun · 78% connection
A cutting in two; a division.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, amphineura, body, naked, covered.
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: division, amphineura, body, naked, covered.
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: division, amphineura, body, naked, covered.
Fission
noun · 78% connection
A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, amphineura, body, naked, covered.
Gephyrea
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of marine Annelida, in which the body is imperfectly, or not at all, annulated externally, and is mostly without setae.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, amphineura, body, naked, covered.
Gizzard
noun · 78% connection
The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, amphineura, body, naked, covered.
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: division, amphineura, body, naked, covered.
Hylaeosaurus
noun · 78% connection
A large Wealden dinosaur from the Tilgate Forest, England. It was about twenty feet long, protected by bony plates in the skin, and ar…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, amphineura, body, naked, covered.
Karyostenosis
noun · 78% connection
Direct cell division (in which there is first a simple division of the nucleus, without any changes in its structure, followed by divi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, amphineura, body, naked, covered.
Lead
noun · 78% connection
One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, amphineura, body, naked, covered.
