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ophiurioid

ophiurioid 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 ophiurioid

pluralophiurioids

Questions about ophiurioid

What is ophiurioid the archaic form of?
Ophiurioid is the archaic form of ophiuroid.

Words near ophiurioid in the dictionary

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

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