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ophiuroids

ophiuroids is the plural 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

Questions about ophiuroids

What is ophiuroids the plural of?
Ophiuroids is the plural of ophiuroid.

Words near ophiuroids in the dictionary

  1. ophiurioid
  2. ophiurioids
  3. ophiuroid
  4. ophiuroidean
  5. ophiuroideans
  6. ophiuroids
  7. Ophiussa
  8. ophrydeous
  9. ophrynopine
  10. ophryon
  11. ophryons

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