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echinoderms

echinoderms is the plural of echinoderm.

Meaning of echinoderm

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

Questions about echinoderms

What is echinoderms the plural of?
Echinoderms is the plural of echinoderm.

Words near echinoderms in the dictionary

  1. echinodermal
  2. echinodermate
  3. echinodermatous
  4. echinodermic
  5. echinodermology
  6. echinoderms
  7. echinofauna
  8. echinofaunas
  9. echinoid
  10. echinoids
  11. echinological

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