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ophiuroid

ophiuroid noun: an echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea; the brittlestar.

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 ophiuroid

pluralophiuroids

Origin of ophiuroid

From class name Ophiuroidea.

Questions about ophiuroid

What does ophiuroid mean?
Ophiuroid means an echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea; the brittlestar.
What part of speech is ophiuroid?
Ophiuroid is a noun.
What is the plural of ophiuroid?
The plural of ophiuroid is ophiuroids.

Words near ophiuroid in the dictionary

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

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