SUBCLASS EURYALIDA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does subclass Euryalida mean? 

• SUBCLASS EURYALIDA (noun)
  The noun SUBCLASS EURYALIDA has 1 sense:

1. basket stars

  Familiarity information: SUBCLASS EURYALIDA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBCLASS EURYALIDA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Basket stars

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Euryalida; subclass Euryalida

Hypernyms ("subclass Euryalida" is a kind of...):

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "subclass Euryalida"):

basket fish; basket star (any starfish-like animal of the genera Euryale or Astrophyton or Gorgonocephalus having slender complexly branched interlacing arms radiating from a central disc)

Euryale; genus Euryale (basket stars)

Astrophyton; genus Astrophyton (includes many of the basket stars)

genus Gorgonocephalus; Gorgonocephalus (basket stars)

Holonyms ("subclass Euryalida" is a member of...):

class Ophiuroidea; Ophiuroidea (brittle stars and basket stars)