单词 | echinoderm |
释义 | echinodermn.adj. Zoology. A. n. An animal of the phylum Echinodermata (or Echinoderma). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > member of echinite1750 echinoderm1813 1813 Ann. Philos. 2 305 This beautiful work..appeared to the Class to deserve the prize..by the great progress which it has made to the intimate knowledge of the echinodermes. 1834 R. Owen Descr. Catal. Compar. Anat. II. p. xi (table) Subseries 1. In Acelaphes... 2. In Echinoderms... 3. In Annelides. 1886 Athenæum 18 Dec. 828/2 The blastoids form an extinct group of stalked echinoderms. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. ii. 17 The Echinoderms..have a great tendency to be five-rayed. 1978 M. Lambert Fossils 88 The sea lilies, or Crinoids, were the most common Echinoderms in the Silurian, Carboniferous and Permian periods. 2003 Rotunda Summer–Fall 4/1 Sea stars are among the most fragile of echinoderms (spiny-skinned invertebrate animals). B. adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the phylum Echinodermata (or Echinoderma); = echinodermal adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [adjective] > belonging to or resembling echinoderms echinodermatous1825 echinodermal1843 echinoderm1857 1857 Proc. Royal Soc. 1856–7 8 376 But between these Echinoderm and Annelidan families the author attempts to indicate other zoological affinities. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 592 Balfour regarded Tornaria as intermediate in structure between the Echinoderm larva and the Trochosphere. 1929 Biol. Bull. 57 176 Growth regulating substances in echinoderm larvæ. 1978 M. Lambert Fossils 88 Sea cucumbers (Holothuroids) lack the Echinoderm skeleton. 2003 L. Moss What Genes can't Do i. 33 Working with enucleated echinoderm eggs, Boveri would replace the maternal nucleus with that from sperm of a phenotypically distinguishable variety. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1813 |
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