NOUN
- echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders
How To Use holothurian In A Sentence
- Some, like many starfish, are predators; holothurians, sand dollars, and ophiuroids often feed on detritus; crinoids are filter-feeders; sea urchins scrape algae from rocks.
- The literature on echinoderm neurobiology is sparse, but one of the few studies available found that the pharyngeal retractor muscle of the holothurian Cucumaria has perhaps 700 motor units.
- There was significantly greater population density of holothurians when a coral reef was adjacent to the mangroves than a shoreline with coral reef alone or mangroves alone.
- Cool Cuke holothurian A few weeks ago, I took part in an event showcasing the king of WTF foods—the food item that wins the crown for most bemusing common ingredient in the Chinese culinary vocabulary: The humble holothurian, better known as the common sea cucumber. Week in Words
- All right, this creature may not be an alien, but he is a holothurian from the benthic zone. Ugly Overload
- Although the group was first documented in 1555, their phylogenetic affinities are obscure; they have been variously related to holothurians, echiurids, priapulids, phoronids, and annelids.
- Before adding this, be opposite in Guangzhou periphery of characteristic agriculture step on a dot, lavender, cherry, frog, goose, holothurian , rose, even firedrake fruit he has studied.
- The water vascular system, found in all echinoderms, accommodates the elongated body of the holothurians.
- Before adding this, be opposite in Guangzhou periphery of characteristic agriculture step on a dot, lavender, cherry, frog, goose, holothurian , rose, even firedrake fruit he has studied.
- In fact, crinoids, holothurians, and ophiuroids rule the floor of the deep oceans at depths below 500 metres.