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   ‖Crinoidea , n. pl. [NL., from Gr. κρίνον lily + -oid: cf. F.  crinoïde.] (Zool.) A large class of Echinodermata, including numerous extinct families and genera, but comparatively few living ones.  Most of the fossil species, like some that are recent, were attached by a jointed stem.  See Blastoidea, Cystoidea, Comatula.
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