Definition of Gorgonocephalus

1. Noun. Basket stars.

Exact synonyms: Genus Gorgonocephalus
Generic synonyms: Echinoderm Genus
Group relationships: Euryalida, Subclass Euryalida

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gorgonocephalus

Gordon Bennett
Gordon and Sweet stain
Gordon reflex
Gordon setter
Gordy
Gore-Tex
Gore Vidal
Gorevan
Goreyesque
Gorgas
Gorgias
Gorgio
Gorgios
Gorgonean
Gorgonocephalus
Gorham's disease
Goriaew's rule
Gorilla gorilla beringei
Gorilla gorilla gorilla
Gorilla gorilla grauri
Goring
Gorizia
Gorki
Gorkiy
Gorky
Gorlin's sign
Gorlin's syndrome
Gorlin's syndromes

Literary usage of Gorgonocephalus

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

1. Report of the Second Norwegian Arctic Expedition in the "Fram," 1898-1902 by Per Schei, Norske videnskaps-akademi i Oslo, Nordal Willie (1907)
"Only gorgonocephalus agassizi has hitherto been recorded from that quarter (DUNCAN ... It very much resembles a gorgonocephalus agassizi, measuring 5.5 mm., ..."

2. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1900)
"Resembles gorgonocephalus in form, but differs in having no pavement of plates on the margins and interradial areas ; in the absence of under arm-plates; ..."

3. A General Outline of the Animal Kingdom, and Manual of Comparative Anatomy by Thomas Rymer Jones (1841)
"In the gorgonocephalus (Jig. 59), the proportionate size of the rays when compared with that of the central disc still preponderates very considerably, ..."

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