CRINOIDEA


Meaning of CRINOIDEA in English

( n. pl. )

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.

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