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homoiosteles

homoiosteles is the plural of homoiostele.

Meaning of homoiostele

Noun

homoiostele (plural homoiosteles)

  1. A member of the class Homoiostelea.
    • Homoiosteles are superficially similar to stylophorans: the column or stele resembles the aulacophore and the theca in younger genera develope^([sic]) distinct marginal and somatic plate patterns. The earliest homoiosteles are attached by a holdfast, at least in juvenile stages, and this fixation...1997 October, R[onald] L. Parsley, “The echinoderm classes Stylophora and Homoiostelea: non Calcichordata”, in The Paleontological Society Papers, volume 3, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge...

Questions about homoiosteles

What is homoiosteles the plural of?
Homoiosteles is the plural of homoiostele.

Words near homoiosteles in the dictionary

  1. homoiophony
  2. homoioptota
  3. homoioptoton
  4. homoiosis
  5. homoiostele
  6. homoiosteles
  7. homoioteleuta
  8. homoioteleuton
  9. homoioteleutons
  10. homoiotherm
  11. homoiothermal

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