echinoderm
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English
Etymology
From French échinoderme, corresponding to echino- + -derm, after plural of 18th-century Latin echinoderma.
Noun
echinoderm (plural echinoderms)
- An animal of the phylum Echinodermata, comprising radially symmetric, spiny-skinned marine animals including seastars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, crinoids, and sand dollars.
- 1879, Richard Rathbun, A List of the Brazilian Echinoderms: With Notes on Their Distribution, Etc:
- Comparatively few additions were therefore made to the previously known Echinoderm-fauna of Brazil, only a single species, a Leptasterias, being with certainty new to science.
- 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 47:
- Many echinoderms are still bilateral as larvae, and swim freely in the ocean like baby fish.
Translations
member of the Echinodermata
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French échinoderme.
Noun
echinoderm n (plural echinoderme)
Declension
Declension of echinoderm
| singular | plural | |||
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| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) echinoderm | echinodermul | (niște) echinoderme | echinodermele |
| genitive/dative | (unui) echinoderm | echinodermului | (unor) echinoderme | echinodermelor |
| vocative | echinodermule | echinodermelor | ||