How to Use echinoderm in a Sentence

echinoderm

noun
Definition of echinodermnext
  • The most common type of animals in the CCZ are arthropods, worms, sponges, and echinoderms like sea urchins.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 May 2023
  • Along with sea urchins and starfish, sea cucumbers belong to a group called echinoderms.
    — National Geographic, 2 June 2017
  • Feather stars are echinoderms, like the more familiar sea stars.
    — National Geographic, 9 Dec. 2016
  • The lure of lucrative echinoderms may have proved too strong for three Southeast fishermen.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The first saw the emergence of brachiopods and molluscs, the second that of annelids, cnidarians, echinoderms and chordates (a group that includes the vertebrates).
    — The Economist, 7 June 2018
  • Thousands of suction cups rippled furiously against the glass as each echinoderm struggled to inch the prize toward its own maw.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Sea cucumbers, which are shaped like cucumbers with small feet and measure up to six feet (1.8 meters), are echinoderms, a family that includes starfish and sea urchin.
    — Elliot Spagat, The Denver Post, 20 May 2017
  • Jamie Pang, with the Center for Biological Diversity, was among those who tried to stop the echinoderm exemption last year.
    — National Geographic, 2 June 2017
  • The common sea star (Asterias forbesi) is an echinoderm related to sea urchins and sea cucumbers.
    — Dave Taft, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2017
  • The footage of this pasta-looking echinoderm is actually pretty exciting because of a connection to food: Scientists got a first look at the creature eating.
    — Rachel E. Greenspan, Time, 11 July 2019
  • Which has members of the indigenous community particularly worried about the fate of these strange echinoderms.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 4 Nov. 2017
  • Ernst Haeckel’s intention was to make the natural forms of elusive organisms accessible to artists, and supply them with a new visual vocabulary of protists, mollusks, trilobites, siphonophores, fungi, and echinoderms.
    — The New York Review of Books, 16 Dec. 2018
  • That is in contradistinction to Cambrian fossils, among which are found representatives of all the main animal groups (annelids, arthropods, brachiopods, chordates, cnidarians, echinoderms, molluscs and so on) that are around today.
    — The Economist, 7 June 2018
  • Congresswoman Pingree, whose past voting record falls firmly on the side of environmental and wildlife protections, is an unlikely champion for an exemption to echinoderm inspections.
    — National Geographic, 2 June 2017
  • Congresswoman Pingree, whose past voting record falls firmly on the side of environmental and wildlife protections, is an unlikely champion for an exemption to echinoderm inspections.
    — National Geographic, 2 June 2017

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