echinoderm
English
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Etymology
[edit]From French échinoderme, corresponding to echino- + -derm, after plural of 18th-century Latin echinoderma.
Noun
[edit]echinoderm (plural echinoderms)
- An animal of the phylum Echinodermata, comprising radially symmetric, spiny-skinned marine animals including seastars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, crinoids, and sand dollars. [from 19th c.]
- 1879, Richard Rathbun, A List of the Brazilian Echinoderms: With Notes on Their Distribution, Etc:
- Comparatively few additions were therefore made to the previously known Echinoderm-fauna of Brazil, only a single species, a Leptasterias, being with certainty new to science.
- 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 47:
- Many echinoderms are still bilateral as larvae, and swim freely in the ocean like baby fish.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]member of the Echinodermata
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Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French échinoderme.
Noun
[edit]echinoderm n (plural echinoderme)
Declension
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| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | echinoderm | echinodermul | echinoderme | echinodermele | |
| genitive-dative | echinoderm | echinodermului | echinoderme | echinodermelor | |
| vocative | echinodermule | echinodermelor | |||
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