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Of or pertaining to the Ophiurioidea. -- n.

A genus of ophiurans having the arms much branched.

ing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. [Eng.] Goldsmith. Basket fish (Zoöl.), an ophiuran of the genus Astrophyton, having the arms much branched. See Astrophyton. -- Basket hilt, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork to protect the hand. Hudibras. Hence, Baskethilted, a. -- Basket work, work consis…

Any species of ophiuran starfishes. See Ophiuroidea.

A genus of ophiurans with much-branched arms.

The free-swimming larva of sea urchins and ophiurans, having several long stiff processes inclosing calcareous rods.

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

thin, compressed body, and a band of red running lengthwise. -- Serpent star (Zoöl.), an ophiuran; a brittle star. -- Serpent's tongue (Paleon.), the fossil tooth of a shark; -- so called from its resemblance to a tongue with its root. -- Serpent withe (Bot.), a West Indian climbing plant (Aristolochia odoratissima)…

An extensive group of echinoderms, comprising the starfishes and ophiurans.

One of the central ossicles in each joint of the arms of an ophiuran.

Having movable joints resembling vertebræ; -- said of the arms ophiurans.