apiocrinite Palæont.
(æpɪˈɒkrɪnaɪt)
[mod. f. Gr. ἄπι-ον pear + κρίν-ον lily + -ite, after encrinite.]
The ‘pear-encrinite,’ a stalked echinoderm of the Oolite, so called from its shape.
| 1830 Lyell Princ. Geol. (1875) II. iii. xlviii. 580 A crinoid referable to the Apiocrinite type. 1851 Richardson Geol. viii. 227 The stem in apiocrinites is cylindrical. |