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ophiurid

ophiurid is the archaic form of ophiuroid.

Meaning of ophiuroid

Noun

ophiuroid (plural ophiuroids)

  1. An echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea; the brittlestar.
    • Other ophiuroids are more delicate: they pick, feel and spread themselves over corals, gorgonians and other organisms like courtesans in feather boas.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 48

Forms of ophiurid

pluralophiurids

Questions about ophiurid

What is ophiurid the archaic form of?
Ophiurid is the archaic form of ophiuroid.

Words near ophiurid in the dictionary

  1. Ophiuchus
  2. ophiuran
  3. ophiurans
  4. ophiure
  5. ophiures
  6. ophiurid
  7. ophiurids
  8. ophiurioid
  9. ophiurioids
  10. ophiuroid
  11. ophiuroidean

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