Crossword-Solution: CRINOID
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Crinoid | a. | Crinoidal. |
| Crinoid | n. | One of the Crinoidea. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “CRINOID”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Lily-shaped | 1 answer |
| Sea lily, e.g. | 1 answer |
| sea lily | 1 answer |
| Feather-star | 2 answers |
| crinoidea | 3 answers |
| Echinoderm | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with CRINOID (5)
But these objections are refuted by Godlewski's experiments, in which he showed definitely that if the egg of the sea-urchin is fertilised with the sperm of a crinoid the fusion of the egg-nucleus and sperm-nucleus takes place in the normal way.
But then, on careful consideration of the facts, the objection arises that the stalk, calyx, and arms of the paleozoic Crinoid are exceedingly different from the corresponding organs of a larval 'Comatula'; and it might with perfect justice be argued that 'Actinocrinus' and 'Eucalyptocrinus', for example, depart to the full as widely, in one direction, from the stalked embryo of 'Comatula', as 'Comatula' itself does in the other.
This Crinoid, with its innumerable tentacular arms, appears to have been frequently attached to the driftwood of the liassic sea, in the same manner as Barnacles float about on wood at the present day.
This subkingdom comprises at present such familiar forms as the crinoid, the starfish, and the sea urchin.
The cystoid reaches its climax, but there appear now two higher types of echinoderms,--the crinoid and the starfish.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1982–2009).