Crossword-Solution: PEDICELLARIA
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| Pedicellaria | n. | A peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in large numbers upon starfishes and echini. Those of starfishes have two movable jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel. See Illustration in Appendix. |
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| each of numerous organs like small pincers on the outside of an echinoderm | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and
rolling, with noise.
Hint 2 anagram
LLPOAW
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BATTER ___
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Sentences with PEDICELLARIA (4)
ECHINUS MILIARIS (_See Plate_ 7); (_a_) teeth and digesting mill; (_b_) suckers, enlarged; (_c_) spine and socket; (_d_) shell denuded; (_e_) Pedicellaria.
Pedicellaria of Sea-urchin; _s_ stem, _p_ base of fork, _t_ fork.] If we watch the Sea-urchin after he has been feeding, we shall learn, at least, one of the offices which this singular organ performs in the general economy of the animal.
The head of the Pedicellaria globosa is a formidable weapon; at the apex of each of its three serrated and toothed blades there is a strong sharp spine directed horizontally inwards, so that the three spines cross each other when the blades close, which they do so energetically that nothing could escape from such a grasp.
The virulence of the poison may be gauged from the fact that the bite of a single gemmiform pedicellaria caused a frog's heart to stop beating.