Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the disks or wheel-like joints of the stem of an encrinite; a wheelstone, screw-stone, or entrochus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) A wheel-like joint of the stem of a fossil crinoid.
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- noun paleontology A
wheel -likejoint of thestem of afossil crinoid .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek a wheel.
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