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The researchers also want to prove that the other echinoderms are covered in headlike regions as well.

From Scientific American • Nov. 3, 2023

Instead, the headlike regions are distributed with some in the center of the sea star as well as in the center of each limb of its body.

From Science Daily • Nov. 1, 2023

The research revealed that sea stars have a headlike territory in the center of each "arm" and a tail-like region along the perimeter.

From Science Daily • Nov. 1, 2023

In an unexpected twist, no part of the sea star ectoderm expresses a "trunk" genetic patterning program, suggesting that sea stars are mostly headlike.

From Science Daily • Nov. 1, 2023

Flowers.—In interrupted spikes, having from three to nine dense, rather remote, headlike, bracteate whorls.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth