Palæont. [mod. f. Gr. ἄπι-ον pear + κρίν-ον lily + -ITE, after encrinite.] The ‘pear-encrinite,’ a stalked echinoderm of the Oolite, so called from its shape.
1830. Lyell, Princ. Geol. (1875), II. III. xlviii. 580. A crinoid referable to the Apiocrinite type.
1857. Richardson, Geol., viii. 227. The stem in apiocrinites is cylindrical.
