a. (sb.) Zool. [ad. Gr. κρινοειδής lily-like. As a sb. the latinized plural forms crinoidea, crinoida are used in Zool.]
A. adj. Lily-shaped; applied to an order (chiefly fossil) of echinoderms, having a calyx-like body, stalked and rooted. B. sb. A member of this order.
1836. Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 109/2. Some are fixed, as the crinoid echinoderma.
1847. Ansted, Anc. World, iii. 26. Animals … called Crinoids.
1871. Hartwig, Subterr. W., ii. 17. The Crinoids, or Sea-lilies, now almost entirely extinct.
Hence Crinoidal a., of or pertaining to the Crinoida or Crinoidea, an order of Echinodermata. Crinoidean, a member of the Crinoidea.
1849. Dana, Geol., ix. (1850), 494. The rarity of Crinoidal remains.
1882. Geikie, Text Bk. Geol., II. II. vi. 168. Crinoidal (Encrinite) Limestone, a rock composed in great part of crystalline joints of encrinites.
1835. Kirby, Hab. & Inst. Anim., II. xiii. 11. Lamarck has placed the Crinoïdeans … in the same order with his Floating Polypes.
1851. Richardson, Geol., 227. The most perfect type of crinoidean.
