Crinoidea

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
Crinoidea
    n 1: sea lilies [syn: {Crinoidea}, {class Crinoidea}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Crinoidea \Cri*noid"e*a\ (kr[-i]*noid"[-e]*[.a]), n. pl. [NL.,
   from Gr. kri`non lily + -oid: cf. F. crino["i]de.] (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}.
   [1913 Webster]
    

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