Stellerid Zool.
(ˈstɛlərɪd)
[ad. F. stelléride (Lamarck) app. irreg. f. L. stella star. (See -id3.)]
A star-fish. Also steˈlleridan [see -idan], † stelliridean, -ian.
| 1835 Kirby Hab. & Inst. I. vi. 201 Lamarck..has divided it [the order of Echinoderms] into three sections, the Stelleridans, Echinidans, and Fistulidans. 1836 Buckland Geol. & Min. (1869) I. 348 No fossil Stelleridans have yet been noticed in strata more ancient than the Muschelkalk. 1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 262/2 Lamarck made his Radiaires Echinodermes consist of three sections. 1st, the Stellirideans (star-fishes). 1842 Ibid. XXIII. 17/2 Agassiz also divides the Stelliridians into three families. 1882 Cassell's Nat. Hist. VI. 271 The bases of the lateral tentacular branches which they give off open into large ambulacral vesicles, just as in the Stellerids. 1896 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. XXXVIII. 389 note, A paper on the ‘Organogeny of Stellerids’. |