Dictionary Home » Dictionary Definitions » echinodermatous

echinodermatous

Variant of echinoderm

noun

any of a phylum (Echinodermata) of marine animals with a water-vascular system, and usually with a hard, spiny skeleton and radial body, including the starfishes and sea urchins

Origin: < ModL Echinodermata: see echino- & -derm

Related Forms:

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
link/cite print suggestion box