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Containing remains of the earliest discovered life of the globe, which included mollusks, radiates and protozoans.

Of or pertaining to a radius or ray; consisting of, or like, radii or rays; radiated; as, (Bot.) radial projections; (Zoöl.) radial vessels or canals; (Anat.) the radial artery. Radial symmetry. (Biol.) See under Symmetry.

Emitting or proceeding as from a center; [U.S.] rays; radiating; radiate.

A radiate. [Obs.]

The act of radiating, or the state of being radiated; emission and diffusion of rays of light; beamy brightness.

That which radiates or emits rays, whether of light or heat; especially, that part of a heating apparatus from which the heat is radiated or diffused; as, a stream radiator.

Radiating organs, or color-markings, of the radiates.

One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.

open frame on which are stretched spirals of wire. Being freely exposed to the air, they radiate heat rapidly.

several symmetrical segments arranged around the central axis and composing the body of a radiate anmal.

The body wall of any radiate animal.

A minute spherical crystalline body having a radiated structure, observed in some vitreous volcanic rocks, as obsidian and pearlstone.

Specifically, a radiated mark in writing or printing; an asterisk [thus, *]; -- used as a reference to a note, or to fill a blank where something is omitted, etc.

Resembling a star; stellated; radiated like a star; as, starlike flowers.

Resembling a star; pointed or radiated, like the emblem of a star.

Like a star; star-shaped; radiated.

Having the shape or appearance of little stars; radiated.

ate of alumina and lime, usually occurring in sheaflike aggregations of crystals, also in radiated masses. It is of a white or yellowish color, with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. Called also desmine.

To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.

Not having any of the distinct systems or types of structure, as the radiate, articulate, etc., characteristic of organic nature; as, all unicellular organisms are systemless.