Definition of Radial symmetry

1. Noun. The property of symmetry about an axis. "The starfish illustrates radial symmetry"


Definition of Radial symmetry

1. Noun. A form of symmetry in which identical parts are arranged in a circular fashion around a central axis. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Radial Symmetry

radial keratotomy
radial nerve
radial notch
radial phenomenon
radial ponderomotive force stabilisation
radial pulse
radial recurrent artery
radial reflex
radial saw
radial scar
radial sclerosing lesion
radial shield
radial spoke
radial styloid tendovaginitis
radial symmetries
radial symmetry
radial tire
radial tires
radial tuberosity
radial tyre
radial tyres
radial vein
radial veins
radial velocity
radiale
radialene
radialia
radialis
radialis indicis artery
radiality

Literary usage of Radial symmetry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of Geology: For Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1915)
"This classification of animals based on superficial ances naturally had to be given up, but nevertheless the :ion " animals with radial symmetry " is ..."

2. Principles of Animal Biology by Aaron Franklin Shull, George Roger Larue, Alexander Grant Ruthven (1920)
"Ideally if an animal is to exhibit radial symmetry it must be possible to pass an ... Actual examples of such perfect radial symmetry are unknown and in ..."

3. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1897)
"378): "The cell divisions . . . show a peculiar modification of radial symmetry, which is best characterized as spiral in character, and which cannot be ..."

4. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"The Bryophyta, with very few exceptions, which will require special consideration, show polarity, but retain their radial symmetry. ..."

5. The Grand Strategy of Evolution: The Social Philosophy of a Biologist by William Patten (1920)
"... Jellyfish)—Spiral Growth and False radial symmetry (Molluscs and Echino- derms). No individual can contain within itself all the different instruments, ..."

6. Principles of Breeding: A Treatise on Thremmatology Or the Principles and by Eugene Davenport, Henry Lewis Rietz (1907)
"radial symmetry and radial series. By this is meant that kind of pattern in which the ... The pattern is therefore spoken of as one of radial symmetry, ..."

7. Principles of Breeding: A Treatise on Thremmatology Or the Principles and by Eugene Davenport, Henry Lewis Rietz (1907)
"radial symmetry and radial series. By this is meant that kind of pattern in which the ... The pattern is therefore spoken of as one of radial symmetry, ..."

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