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sand dollars

sand dollars is the plural of sand dollar.

Meaning of sand dollar

Noun

sand dollar (plural sand dollars)

  1. Any echinoderm of the order Clypeasteroida, having a flat, disk-shaped body with the mouth in a mid-ventral position, and living in sand, on or near the surface.
    • In the sand dollars, the arrangement of the food grooves and consequently the lateral water vessels and their accessory tube feet is more complex (Phelan 1977).1987, John M. Lawrence, chapter I, in A Functional Biology of Echinoderms, page 75

Questions about sand dollars

What is sand dollars the plural of?
Sand dollars is the plural of sand dollar.

Words near sand dollars in the dictionary

  1. sand darters
  2. sand darts
  3. sand diver
  4. sand divers
  5. sand dollar
  6. sand dollars
  7. sand dome
  8. sand domes
  9. sand down
  10. sand drag
  11. sand drags

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