Definition of Echinoids

1. Noun. (plural of echinoid) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Echinoids

1. echinoid [n] - See also: echinoid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Echinoids

echinococciasis
echinococcoses
echinococcosis
echinococcus
echinococcus cyst
echinococcus disease
echinocyte
echinoderm
echinoderm family
echinoderm genus
echinodermal
echinodermatous
echinoderms
echinoid
echinoidea
echinoids (current term)
echinomycin
echinosis
echinostoma
echinostomatidae
echinostomiasis
echinozoa
echinulate
echinus
echinuses
echistatin
echium
echiums
echiuran
echiurans

Literary usage of Echinoids

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

1. The Natural History of Secession; Or, Despotism and Democracy at Necessary by Thomas Shepard Goodwin (1865)
"THE ORDER OF echinoids, OR SEA-URCHINS. THE Order of echinoids contains echinoderms which have a more or less spherical or discoidal shell composed of ..."

2. Natural History: A Manual of Zoology for Schools, Colleges, and the General by Sanborn Tenney (1872)
"THE ORDER OF echinoids, OR SEA-URCHINS. THE Order of echinoids contains echinoderms which have a more or less spherical or discoidal shell composed of ..."

3. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1911)
"The observations of Baltzer ('09) seem to have led to an immediate conclusion that in echinoids the female is the hetero- gametic sex while the male is ..."

4. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1894)
"The anal opening in the Regular echinoids (Fig. 441) is in the opposite or dorsal area or center of radiation. Around the dorsal area there are 5 minute ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Echinoids on Dictionary.com!Search for Echinoids on Thesaurus.com!Search for Echinoids on Google!Search for Echinoids on Wikipedia!

Search