stelleroidn.
/ˈstɛlərɔɪd/ Zoology.
A starfish or a similar invertebrate belonging to the class Stelleroidea.
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1900 J. W. Gregory in E. R. Lankester Treat. Zool. III. xiv. 237 This list of characters is quite sufficient to mark off the Stelleroids from all other Echinoderms.
1935 W. H. Twenhofel & R. R. Shrock Invertebr. Paleontol. vi. 190 Stelleroidea—..referring to the starlike appearance of the stelleroid.
1962 D. Nichols Echinoderms iv. 62 They were burrowers, and, like some recent stelleroids, sat in the substratum with only the arm-tips exposed above the surface.
1970 R. M. Black Elements Palaeontol. ix. 105 The stelleroids, too, are vagrant.
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