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Alliance
noun · 78% connection
The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc.,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, class, echinodermata, including, numerous.
Ammonite
noun · 78% connection
A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having ex…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, class, echinodermata, including, numerous.
Anabolism
noun · 78% connection
the synthesis in living organisms of more complex substances (e.g., living tissue) from simpler ones together with the storage of ener…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, class, echinodermata, including, numerous.
Asteridea
n. pl. · 78% connection
A class of Echinodermata including the true starfishes. The rays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, class, echinodermata, including, numerous.
Belemnite
noun · 78% connection
a conical calcareous fossil tapering to a point at one end and with a conical cavity at the other end containing (when unbroken) a sma…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, class, echinodermata, including, numerous.
Cestraciont
noun · 78% connection
A shark of the genus Cestracion, and of related genera. The posterior teeth form a pavement of bony plates for crushing shellfish. Mos…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, class, echinodermata, including, numerous.
Cyathophylloid
noun · 78% connection
A fossil coral of the family Cyathophyllidae; sometimes extended to fossil corals of other related families belonging to the group Rug…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, class, echinodermata, including, numerous.
Echinoderm
noun · 78% connection
One of the Echinodermata.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, class, echinodermata, including, numerous.
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: large, class, echinodermata, including, numerous.
Elephant
noun · 78% connection
A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are know…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, class, echinodermata, including, numerous.
Fossil
noun · 78% connection
The remains of an animal or plant found in stratified rocks. Most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later ones belong…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, class, echinodermata, including, numerous.
Graptolite
noun · 78% connection
One of numerous species of slender and delicate fossils, of the genus Graptolites and allied genera, found in the Silurian rocks. They…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, class, echinodermata, including, numerous.
Grasshopper
noun · 78% connection
Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acrididae and Locustidae. The species and genera are very numerous. The former famil…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, class, echinodermata, including, numerous.
Hybodont
adjective · 78% connection
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an extinct genus of sharks (Hybodus), especially in the form of the teeth, which consist of a princi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, class, echinodermata, including, numerous.
Inoceramus
noun · 78% connection
An extinct genus of large, fossil, bivalve shells,allied to the mussels. The genus is characteristic of the Cretaceous period.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, class, echinodermata, including, numerous.
Kangaroo
noun · 78% connection
Any one of numerous species of jumping marsupials of the family Macropodidae. They inhabit Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, class, echinodermata, including, numerous.
Large
superl. · 78% connection
Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; gre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, class, echinodermata, including, numerous.
Limuloidea
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of Merostomata, including among living animals the genus Limulus, with various allied fossil genera, mostly of the Carbonifer…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, class, echinodermata, including, numerous.
