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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea: see Echinodermata Echinodermata (əkī'nōdûr`mətə) [Gr.
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; feather star feather star, common name of a class of echinoderms that, as juveniles, are attached to the sea bottom by a stalk with rootlike branches; the mouth side faces upward. In the adult stage they break away from the stalk and move about freely.
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; sea lily sea lily, stalked echinoderm of the class Crinoidea. Sea lilies are ancient, having reached their peak in the Middle Mississippian period; about 5,000 fossil species are known. About 80 modern species remain.
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Crinoidea [krə′nȯid·ē·ə]
(invertebrate zoology)
A class of radially symmetrical crinozoans in which the adult body is flower-shaped and is either carried on an anchored stem or is free-living.


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Also reported by ltalithos (2004), but more difficult to find in the Legislative Building, are corals, crinoids, sponges, mollusks and forams.
Scientists had known for decades that stalked crinoids sometimes move--but barely.
Chiefs at Seahawks (-3): If Gunther Cunningham were not a football coach, I believe he would be a marine biologist specializing in the sleeping patterns of pycnogonid sea spiders and stalked crinoids.
 
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