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The calyx of a crinoid. Pelvis of the kidney (Anat.), the basinlike cavity into which the ureter expands as it joins the kidney.

A red and purple pigment found in certain crinoids of the genus Pentacrinus.

A genus of large, stalked crinoids, of which several species occur in deep water among the West Indies and elsewhere.

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

rows so as to have a plumelike appearance; as, a pinnule of a gorgonia; the pinnules of a crinoid.

Radial plates in the calyx of a crinoid.

The central cord in the stem of a crinoid.

t love-a-mist. See under Love. -- Saint Cuthbert's beads (Paleon.), the fossil joints of crinoid stems. -- Saint Dabeoc's heath (Bot.), a heatherlike plant (Dabæcia polifolia), named from an Irish saint. -- Saint Distaff's Day. See under Distaff. -- Saint Elmo's fire, a luminious, flamelike appearance, sometimes se…

One of the plates from which the arms of a crinoid arise.

A crinoid.

A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.

rnacle (Zoöl.), a goose barnacle, or anatifer; -- called also stalk barnacle. -- Stalked crinoid (Zoöl.), any crinoid having a jointed stem.

Any one of the segments of an arm of a crinoid composed of two joints so closely united that the line of union is obliterated on the outer, though visible on the inner, side.

A division of Crinoidea including numerous fossil species in which the body is covered with tessellated plates.

A wheel-like joint of the stem of a fossil crinoid.