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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of the numerous external, fluid-filled muscular tubes of an echinoderm, such as a starfish or sea urchin, serving as organs of locomotion, food handling, and respiration.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the numerous tubular locomotory pedicels of the ambulacra of echinoderms, as star-fishes and sea-urchins; a water-foot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
locomotor appendage of anechinoderm consisting of a tube withlongitudinal muscles,pressurized by water.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tentacular tubular process of most echinoderms (starfish and sea urchins and holothurians) having a sucker at the end and used for e.g. locomotion and respiration
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