proxistele

English

Noun

proxistele (plural proxisteles)

1. The proximal portion of the tail-like appendage on a homoiostele.
   • 1997 October, R[onald] L. Parsley, “The echinoderm classes Stylophora and Homoiostelea: non Calcichordata”, in The Paleontological Society Papers, volume 3, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 235:

     The proxistele is not fundamentally tetramerous and there is little evidence of rotation.