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单词 crinoid
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crinoidadj.n.

Brit. /ˈkrʌɪnɔɪd/, /ˈkrɪnɔɪd/, U.S. /ˈkraɪˌnɔɪd/, /ˈkrɪˌnɔɪd/
Forms: 1800s crinoïd, 1800s– crinoid.
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: Greek κρίνον , -oid suffix.
Etymology: < ancient Greek κρίνον lily (see crinum n.) + -oid suffix, after scientific Latin Crinoidea (or Crinoida), class name ( J. S. Miller Nat. Hist. of Crinoidea (1821)). Compare Hellenistic Greek κρινοειδής lily-like.
Zoology and Palaeontology.
A. adj.
Of, relating to, or characterized by echinoderms of the class Crinoidea, which have a small disc-like body with long feathery arms for feeding, and either a segmented stem attached to the substrate (in sea lilies) or short appendages for grasping the substrate (in feather stars). Cf. crinoidal adj. at Derivatives.The crinoids are abundant as fossils in Palaeozoic deposits but are now much reduced in both numbers and variety.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [adjective] > belonging to or characteristic of Pelmatozoa > of or relating to Crinoidea
crinoid1822
crinoidal1824
1822 Edinb. Philos. Jrnl. 6 186 A minute..account, of the crinoid animals so often found in a fossil state in the strata of England.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 109/2 Some are fixed, as the crinoid echinoderma.
1876 C. L. Rominger Geol. Surv. Michigan: Lower Penins. 3 vi. 42 The highest beds..are light-colored limestones containing few fossils beyond some Crinoid stems and ramulets of Bryozoa.
1932 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 43 334 Bedded structures, such as shell beds, crinoid beds, coral beds, etcetera, consisting of and built..by sedentary organisms.
1979 R. Anderton et al. Dynamic Stratigr. Brit. Isles v. 53/2 Crinoid columnals and the brachiopod Leptellina are the only fossils recorded.
2006 D. H. Erwin Extinction x. 259 The number of crinoid species, genera, and families all peak in the Late Jurassic.
B. n.
A crinoid animal; a sea lily or a feather star.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > division Pelmatozoa > class Crinoidea > member of
crinoidean1835
crinoid1836
sea-lily1876
1836 Brit. Critic Oct. 324 The crinoids are the most interesting; they resemble a branching star-fish, like the comatula, mounted on a jointed stem.
1858 J. Hall & J. D. Whitney Rep. Geol. Surv. State Iowa I. ii. viii. 485 Filiform and articulate appendages, like the pinnules of the arms of other crinoids..complete the series of poral pieces.
1889 H. A. Nicholson & R. Lydekker Man. of Palaeontol. (ed. 3) 459 This median groove clearly corresponds with the ‘food-groove’ of the arm and disc of a Crinoid.
1915 Amer. Naturalist 49 523 In the great majority of the recent crinoids the body is almost perfectly pentamerous.
1946 H. Woods Palæontol. Invertebr. (ed. 8) 160 The stem..in the crinoids is more or less flexible, and is sometimes several feet in length.
1978 M. Lambert Fossils 88 The sea lilies, or Crinoids, were the most common Echinoderms in the Silurian, Carboniferous and Permian periods.
2006 D. H. Erwin Extinction v. 110 Although living crinoids are often free-living, the stalked Paleozoic crinoids formed great stands, with different species at different heights.

Derivatives

criˈnoidal adj. of or relating to crinoids; (now chiefly of a geological deposit) characterized by the remains of crinoids; cf. crinoid adj.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [adjective] > belonging to or characteristic of Pelmatozoa > of or relating to Crinoidea
crinoid1822
crinoidal1824
1824 Trans. Geol. Soc. 1 329 Crinoidal remains..are not uncommon, derived principally from cyathocrinites.
1883 Science 21 Dec. 808/1 The argillaceous layers pass into calcareous strata above, that contain a few plates of crinoidal columns.
1940 F. F. Grout Kemp's Handbk. Rocks (ed. 6) viii. 171 The particular organism may be used in naming; as in crinoidal, coralline, fusilina, or bryozoan limestone.
1998 Guardian 19 Dec. (Saturday section) 4/6 On the pale, crinoidal Kilkenny limestone were traced lines from Kavanagh's The Hospital.
criˈnoidean n. [ < scientific Latin Crinoidea + -an suffix (compare -ean suffix), after crinoid adj.] now rare = crinoid n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > division Pelmatozoa > class Crinoidea > member of
crinoidean1835
crinoid1836
sea-lily1876
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xiii. 11 Lamarck has placed the Crinoïdeans..in the same order with his Floating Polypes.
1870 H. Medlock tr. F. Schoedler Bk. Nature (Amer. ed.) 396 Corals were rare; but their place was supplied by the crinoideans.
1924 A. P. Maerker-Branden tr. P. Kammerer Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics 138 Different colored specimens of the Crinoidean Antedon rosaceus..and others preserve, when ingrafted on each other, their individual characteristics.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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