pedicellaria
noun
one of the minute pincerlike structures common to starfish and sea urchins, used for cleaning and to capture tiny prey.
pedicellariae
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pluralof pedicellaria.plural
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Example Sentences
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In certain genera of star-fishes, "the very combinations needed to show that the pedicellariae are only modified branching spines" may be found.
From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Darwin, Charles
In this case the identity in nature between the arms of the pedicellariae and the movable branches of a spine, is unmistakable.
From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Darwin, Charles
Thus every gradation, from an ordinary fixed spine to a fixed pedicellariae, would be of service.
From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Darwin, Charles
The gradation extends even to the manner in which ordinary spines and the pedicellariae, with their supporting calcareous rods, are articulated to the shell.
From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Darwin, Charles
Now when the latter arise from the summit of a spine they form, in fact, a rude tridactyle pedicellariae, and such may be seen on the same spine together with the three lower branches.
From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Darwin, Charles
