Definition of Spatangoida

1. Noun. Heart-shaped sea urchins.

Exact synonyms: Order Spatangoida
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Class Echinoidea, Echinoidea
Member holonyms: Heart Urchin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spatangoida

Sparidae
Sparky
Sparmannia
Sparmannia africana
Sparrow Unit
Sparta
Spartan
Spartans
Spartina
Spartina cynosuroides
Spartina pectinmata
Spartium
Spartium junceum
Sparty
Spatangoida (current term)
Spaulding
Spayen
Spears
Speccies
Speccy
Special Air Service
Special Branch
Special Forces
Special K
Special Olympian
Special Olympics
Special Service Requirement
Special Weapons and Tactics squad
Special Weapons and Tactics team

Literary usage of Spatangoida

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

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In the Spatangoida the anterior unpaired ambulacrum is commonly obsolete (see ... provided with teeth ; in tho Spatangoida it is eccentric and edentulous. ..."

2. A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1888)
"The circular ambulacral vessel of the Spatangoida has no polian vesicles, ... Thus Miiller distinguishes four kinds of pedicels in the Spatangoida: simple ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"In the Spatangoida the anterior unpaired ambulacrum is commonly obsolete (see fig. 5). ... and Spatangoida, and of various lengths in the ..."

4. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Henry Meyners Bernard, Matilda Bernard, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1896)
"Among the Spatangoida, the polymorphism of the ambulacral appendages is very ... which occur in the Spatangoida more or less near the mouth and the anus, ..."

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