Zool. Pl. craspeda. [Gr. κρἀσπεδον edge, border: the form in -um is mod. Latin.] The convoluted filament, charged with thread-cells, forming the border of the mesentery in Actinozoa.
1869. Nicholson, Zool., 101. Along the free margins of the mesenteries … occur certain … convoluted cords, charged with thread-cells, and termed Craspeda.
1888. Rolleston & Jackson, Anim. Life, 240. This thickening is the mesenterial filament or craspedon.
