echinoderm en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ɪˈkaɪnəˌdɝm/ (General-American)
- /ɪˈkɪ-/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /əˈkaɪ.nəˌdərm/ (General-American)
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- /ɪˈkaɪnə(ʊ)ˌdɜːm/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ɪˈkaɪnoʊˌdɝm/ (General-American)
- /əˈkɪn.əˌdərm/ (General-American)
Etymology
From French échinoderme, corresponding to echino- + -derm, after plural of 18th-century Latin echinoderma.
Meanings
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An animal of the phylum Echinodermata, comprising radially symmetric, spiny-skinned marine animals including seastars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, crinoids, and sand dollars.
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.
1879, Richard Rathbun, A List of the Brazilian Echinoderms: With Notes on Their Distribution, Etc:Many echinoderms are still bilateral as larvae, and swim freely in the ocean like baby fish.
2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 47:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| echinoderms | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
sea star · sea urchin · brittle star · sea cucumber · sand dollar
Relateds
Translations (29)
sl iglokožec (member of the Echinodermata) · pt equinodermo (member of the Echinodermata) · bg иглоко́жо (member of the Echinodermata) · mi kiri taratara (member of the Echinodermata) · lt dygiaõdis (member of the Echinodermata) · ca equinoderm (member of the Echinodermata) · mi kiritaratara (member of the Echinodermata) · el εχινόδερμο (member of the Echinodermata) · ko 극피동물 (member of the Echinodermata) · is skrápdýr (member of the Echinodermata) · ja 棘皮動物 (member of the Echinodermata) · es equinodermo (member of the Echinodermata) · de Stachelhäuter (member of the Echinodermata) · az dərisitikanlı (member of the Echinodermata) · tr derisi dikenli (member of the Echinodermata) · id echinoderma (member of the Echinodermata) · fi piikkinahkainen (member of the Echinodermata) · bo ཚེར་པགས་སེམས་ཅན (member of the Echinodermata) · pl szkarłupień (member of the Echinodermata) · hu tüskésbőrűek (member of the Echinodermata) · cs ostnokožec (member of the Echinodermata) · ro echinoderm (member of the Echinodermata) · tl tinikan (member of the Echinodermata) · cmn 棘皮動物 /棘皮动物 (member of the Echinodermata) · he קווץ עור (member of the Echinodermata) · ru иглоко́жее (member of the Echinodermata) · tr ekinoderm (member of the Echinodermata) · sv tagghuding (member of the Echinodermata) · fr échinoderme (member of the Echinodermata)