Word Meanings - PENTREMITES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of crinoids belonging to the Blastoidea. They have five petal-like ambulacra.

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• PETALOSTICHA
  An order of Echini, including the irregular sea urchins, as the spatangoids. See Spatangoid.
• PETALITE
  A rare mineral, occurring crystallized and in cleavable masses, usually white, or nearly so, in color. It is a silicate of aluminia and lithia.
• PETALIFEROUS
  Bearing petals.
• PETALOUS
  Having petals; petaled; -- opposed to Ant: apetalous.
• PETALIFORM
  Having the form of a petal; petaloid; petal-shaped.
• PETALISM
  A form of sentence among the ancient Syracusans by which they banished for five years a citizen suspected of having dangerous influence or ambition. It was similar to the ostracism in Athens; but olive leaves were used instead of shells for ballots.
• BLASTOIDEA
  One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form.
• BELONG
  attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. Note: 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. 2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place
• PETALOIDEOUS
  Having the whole or part of the perianth petaline. Petaloideous division, that division of endogenous plants in which the perianth is wholly or partly petaline, embracing the Liliaceæ, Orchidaceæ, Amaryllideæ, etc.
• PETALOID
  Petaline.
• PETALUM
  A petal.
• AMBULACRAL
  Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.
• BELONGING
  1. That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. "Thyself and thy belongings." Shak. 2. That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance. 3. Family; relations; household.
• PETALINE
  Pertaining to a petal; attached to, or resembling, a petal.
• GENUS
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• PETALODY
  The metamorphosis of various floral organs, usually stamens, into petals.
• PETALED
  Having petals; as, a petaled flower; -- opposed to Ant: apetalous, and much used in compounds; as, one-petaled, three- petaled, etc.
• PETAL
  One of the leaves of the corolla, or the colored leaves of a flower. See Corolla, and Illust. of Flower.
• MACROPETALOUS
  Having long or large petals.
• INTERAMBULACRAL
  Of or pertaining to the interambulacra.
• BIPETALOUS
  Having two petals.
• CATAPETALOUS
  Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• EPIPETALOUS
  Borne on the petals or corolla.
• ANTIPETALOUS
  Standing before a petal, as a stamen.
• OLIGOPETALOUS
  Having few petals.
• TRIPETALOID
  Having the form or appearance of three petals; appearing as if furnished with three petals.
• APETALOUS
  Having no petals, or flower leaves. .
• OCTOPETALOUS
  Having eight petals or flower leaves.
• PENTAPETALOUS
  Having five petals, or flower leaves.
• HEXAPETALOUS
  Having six petals.