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echinoderm

Syllables: e·chi·no·derm/ɪˈkaɪnə(ʊ)ˌdɜːm/US/ɪˈkaɪnəˌdɝm/

echinoderm noun: an animal of the phylum Echinodermata, comprising radially symmetric, spiny-skinned marine animals including seastars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, crinoids, and sand dollars.

Noun

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.
    • 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.1879, Richard Rathbun, A List of the Brazilian Echinoderms: With Notes on Their Distribution, Etc
    • Many echinoderms are still bilateral as larvae, and swim freely in the ocean like baby fish.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 47

echinoderm meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Tagalog and Indonesian

echinoderm in Tamil

தோன்முள்ளி, முட்தோலி, முள்தோலி

echinoderm in Kannada

ಕಂಟಕಚರ್ಮಿ

echinoderm in Tagalog

member of the Echinodermata
tinikan

echinoderm in Indonesian

member of the Echinodermata
echinoderma

Forms of echinoderm

pluralechinoderms

Origin of echinoderm

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

Words formed from echinoderm

Questions about echinoderm

What does echinoderm mean?
Echinoderm means an animal of the phylum Echinodermata, comprising radially symmetric, spiny-skinned marine animals including seastars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, crinoids, and sand dollars.
What is echinoderm in Tamil?
Echinoderm in Tamil is தோன்முள்ளி, முட்தோலி, முள்தோலி. See Echinoderm meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is echinoderm?
Echinoderm is a noun.
How do you pronounce echinoderm?
Echinoderm is pronounced /ɪˈkaɪnə(ʊ)ˌdɜːm/ (UK).
What is the plural of echinoderm?
The plural of echinoderm is echinoderms.

Words near echinoderm in the dictionary

  1. echinocytogenesis
  2. echinocytogenic
  3. echinocytosis
  4. echinoderid
  5. echinoderids
  6. echinoderm
  7. echinodermal
  8. echinodermate
  9. echinodermatous
  10. echinodermic
  11. echinodermology

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