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Webster 1913 Edition
Crinoidea
‖
Cri-noid′e-a
(krī̍-noid′ē̍-ȧ)
, Noun.
pl.
[NL., from Gr.
κρίνον
lily + -oid
: cf. F. crinoïde
.] (Zool.)
A large class of Echinodermata, including numerous extinct families and genera, but comparatively few living ones. Most of the fossil species, like some that are recent, were attached by a jointed stem. See
Blastoidea
, Cystoidea
, Comatula
.