ophiuroid
English edit
Etymology edit
From class name Ophiuroidea.
Noun edit
ophiuroid (plural ophiuroids)
- An echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea; the brittlestar. [from 19th c.]
- 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 48:
- Other ophiuroids are more delicate: they pick, feel and spread themselves over corals, gorgonians and other organisms like courtesans in feather boas.