Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

clypeasteroid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: clypeas-t-eroid
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any echinoderm of the order Clypeasteroida of sand dollars.

Example Sentences

"Their living representatives include the sea urchins or 'true' echinoids, the heart-urchins or spatangoids and allied forms, the sand-dollars or clypeasteroids, and the slate-pencil-urchins, or cidaroids."
"At ordinal levels, in cassiduloids and holectypoids, ambitus is circular, elliptical or oval, while clypeasteroids have a pentagonal to circular type."
"Their traditional taxonomy, based on skeletal characters, has been largely corroborated by recent molecular phylogenetic analyses with one marked exception: clypeasteroids are not found to be monophyletic."

Inflected Forms

clypeasteroids (plural)

Synonyms

pansy shell sand dollar sea cookie snapper biscuit

Questions

What does clypeasteroid mean?: Any echinoderm of the order Clypeasteroida of sand dollars.

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