ophiuroid

English

Etymology

From class name Ophiuroidea.

Noun

ophiuroid (plural ophiuroids)

1. 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.