How do you use Echinoderms in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Echinoderms meaning
plural of echinoderm
Using Echinoderms
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of echinoderm
- In the example corpus, echinoderms often appears in combinations such as: echinoderms are, of echinoderms, the echinoderms.
Context around Echinoderms
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 11 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Echinoderms
- In this selection, "echinoderms" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, system, habitat, citation, except, possess and brood stand out and add context to how "echinoderms" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include activity in echinoderms is surprisingly and among the echinoderms in general. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "echinoderms" sits close to words such as aapi, aarey and aberdare, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with echinoderms
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Echinoderms left behind an extensive fossil record. (7 words)
The echinoderms are important both biologically and geologically. (8 words)
Distribution and habitat Echinoderms are globally distributed in almost all depths, latitudes and environments in the ocean. (17 words)
Brittle stars are not starfish; though both typically have five arms, they constitute different classes of echinoderms, the same invertebrate group that includes sea cucumbers (brittle stars and starfish do share a common ancestor, however). (35 words)
Aside from the water vascular system, echinoderms have a haemal coelom (or haemal system, the "haemal" being a misnomer), a perivisceral coelom, a gonadal coelom and often also a perihaemal coelom (or perihaemal system). (34 words)
Taxonomic affinity seeAlso The group had been variously assigned to the echinoderms, barnacles, annelids and mollusks, before the discovery of a fossil preserving soft tissue allowed a firm classification to the annelids, in 2008. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Even at abyssal depths, where no light penetrates, synchronisation of reproductive activity in echinoderms is surprisingly frequent. citation Some echinoderms brood their eggs.
Brittle stars are not starfish; though both typically have five arms, they constitute different classes of echinoderms, the same invertebrate group that includes sea cucumbers (brittle stars and starfish do share a common ancestor, however).
These echinoderms make a living on near-shore sandy bottoms or lurk in the sea grass meadows of some of our most beautiful waters.
Sea cucumbers, which are shaped like cucumbers with small feet and measure up to 6 feet (1.8 metres), are echinoderms, a family that includes starfish and sea urchin.
Aside from the water vascular system, echinoderms have a haemal coelom (or haemal system, the "haemal" being a misnomer), a perivisceral coelom, a gonadal coelom and often also a perihaemal coelom (or perihaemal system).
Because of their catch connective tissue, which can change rapidly from a flaccid to a rigid state, echinoderms are very difficult to dislodge from crevices.
Distribution and habitat Echinoderms are globally distributed in almost all depths, latitudes and environments in the ocean.
Echinoderms left behind an extensive fossil record.
Granite Hill Publishers, 2003. p. 271. The water vascular system, haemal system and perihaemal system form the tubular coelomic system. citation Echinoderms are an exception having both a coelomic circulatory system (i.
It seems probable that the mouth-upward orientation is the primitive state and that at some stage, all the classes of echinoderms except the crinoids reversed this to become mouth-downward.
Other studies indicate that these subcuticular bacteria may be both abundant within their hosts and widely distributed among the Echinoderms in general.
Ruppert, Fox & Barnes (2004) p. 873 Echinoderms exhibit secondary radial symmetry in portions of their body at some stage of life.
Ruppert, Fox & Barnes (2004) p. 905 Other organs Echinoderms possess a simple digestive system which varies according to the animal's diet.
Similarly, sea urchins can lock their normally mobile spines rigidly as a defensive mechanism when attacked. citation The water vascular system main Echinoderms possess a unique water vascular system.
Taxonomic affinity seeAlso The group had been variously assigned to the echinoderms, barnacles, annelids and mollusks, before the discovery of a fossil preserving soft tissue allowed a firm classification to the annelids, in 2008.
The echinoderms are important both biologically and geologically.
The feet are powered by another unique feature of echinoderms, a water vascular system of canals that also functions as a "lung" and are surrounded by muscles that act as pumps.
The fossil echinoderms had ambulacral grooves extending down the side of the body, fringed on either side by brachioles, structures very similar to the pinnules of a modern crinoid.
The larvae of all echinoderms are even now bilaterally symmetrical and all develop radial symmetry at metamorphosis.
These species belong to four of the major classes of echinoderms except crinozoans (as of 2011). citation Asexual reproduction in the planktonic larvae occurs through numerous modes.
Common combinations with echinoderms
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