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clypeasteroid

clypeasteroid noun: any echinoderm of the order Clypeasteroida of sand dollars.

clypeasteroid: any echinoderm of the order Clypeasteroida of sand dollars
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Noun

clypeasteroid (plural clypeasteroids)

  1. Any echinoderm of the order Clypeasteroida of sand dollars.
    • Their living representatives include the sea urchins or 'true' echinoids, the heart-urchins or spatangoids and allied forms, the sand-dollars or clypeasteroids, and the slate-pencil-urchins, or cidaroids.2006, Robert Wynn Jones, Applied Palaeontology, page 181
    • At ordinal levels, in cassiduloids and holectypoids, ambitus is circular, elliptical or oval, while clypeasteroids have a pentagonal to circular type.2008, Anis Kumar Ray, Fossils in Earth Sciences, page 217

Synonyms of clypeasteroid

Forms of clypeasteroid

pluralclypeasteroids

Questions about clypeasteroid

What does clypeasteroid mean?
Clypeasteroid means any echinoderm of the order Clypeasteroida of sand dollars.
What part of speech is clypeasteroid?
Clypeasteroid is a noun.
What is the plural of clypeasteroid?
The plural of clypeasteroid is clypeasteroids.

Words near clypeasteroid in the dictionary

  1. Clyne
  2. Clyne and Melincourt
  3. Clynnog
  4. Clynnog Fawr
  5. clypeal
  6. clypeasteroid
  7. clypeasteroids
  8. clypeastroid
  9. clypeastroids
  10. clypeate
  11. clypeated

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