echinoderm

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From French échinoderme, corresponding to echino- +‎ -derm, after plural of 18th-century Latin echinoderma.

Noun[edit]

echinoderm (plural echinoderms)

  1. An animal of the phylum Echinodermata, comprising radially symmetric, spiny-skinned marine animals including seastars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, crinoids, and sand dollars. [from 19th c.]
    • 1879, Richard Rathbun, A List of the Brazilian Echinoderms: With Notes on Their Distribution, Etc:
      Comparatively few additions were therefore made to the previously known Echinoderm-fauna of Brazil, only a single species, a Leptasterias, being with certainty new to science.
    • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 47:
      Many echinoderms are still bilateral as larvae, and swim freely in the ocean like baby fish.

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Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French échinoderme.

Noun[edit]

echinoderm n (plural echinoderme)

  1. echinoderm

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