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单词 encrinus
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Encrinusn.

/ˈɛnkrɪnəs/
Forms: Also 1700s encrinos.
Etymology: modern Latin, < Greek ἐν in + κρίνον lily. The word was invented by Harenberg (1729) as a name for a fossil which two years before he had proposed to call a ‘stone lily’.
Zoology.
1. (a) A name formerly applied generally to fossil crinoids; = encrinite n. Obsolete. (b) Now the name of a particular (extinct) genus of crinoids, the type of the family Encrinidæ.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > division Pelmatozoa > class Crinoidea > fossil or encrinite
entrochus1661
syntrochite1681
Encrinus1762
encrinite1808
stone-lily1808
crinite1826
stone-flower1847
1762 [see sense 2].
1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom xi. 138 To convert an Encrinus into an animal capable of locomotion.
1851 T. Wright & G. F. Richardson Introd. Geol. (new ed.) viii. 228 In encrinus, it is composed of different-sized circular plates.
2. Applied to certain extant animals which were supposed to resemble the fossil encrinus: (a) the Pennatula Encrinus of Linnæus = the modern genus Umbellula (class Anthozoa, sub-kingdom Cœlenterata); (b) a crinoid described by Ellis as found on the coast of Barbados. Obsolete.
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1762 J. Ellis in Philos. Trans. 1761 (Royal Soc.) 52 358 As it comes nearest to the fossils called encrini..I shall keep to that name, and call it encrinus.
1788 Chambers's Cycl. (new ed.) Encrinos.
1819 A. Rees Cycl. XIII Encrinus.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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