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- noun Plural form of
holothurian .
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Examples
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The question of what's going on in those heads preoccupies the author as much as finding new samples of tunicates, bristle-chitons and holothurians to fill all those glass specimen jars in the hold.
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The question of what's going on in those heads preoccupies the author as much as finding new samples of tunicates, bristle-chitons and holothurians to fill all those glass specimen jars in the hold.
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John Hunter (1728-93) dissected all kinds of animals, from holothurians to whales.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Besides rocks and mud there were abundant crinoids, holothurians, corals, crustaceans and "shells."
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920
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A haul was made in two hundred and fifty fathoms of ascidians, sponges, crinoids, holothurians, fish and other forms of life in such quantity that Hunter and Hamilton were occupied in sorting the specimens until five o'clock next morning.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920
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It is littered with shells and holothurians, with antique tesserae blue glass and marble fragments, with white mosaic pavements and potteries of every age, from the glossy Greco-Roman ware whose delicately embossed shell devices are emblematic of this sea-girt city, down to the grosser products of yesterday.
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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"The creatures the natives are collecting are the _holothurians_, or sea-cucumbers," answered the naturalist.
In the Eastern Seas William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Some tardigrades live on the legs of isopods, on the gills of mussels or as parasites on the epidermis of barnacles or holothurians.
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These are sea cucumbers or holothurians members of the class Holothuroidea.
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Thus, holothurians should be viewed as an alternative model where many of the questions regarding nervous system regeneration in deuterostomes could be answered.
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