Definition of Pedicelaria
||Ped`i*cel*la"ri*a (?), n.; pl.
Pedicellariæ (#). [NL. See Pedicel.]
(Zoöl.) A peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in
large numbers upon starfishes and echini. Those of starfishes have two
movable jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile;
those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel. See
Illustration in Appendix.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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