ADJECTIVE
- having a symmetrical arrangement of radiating parts about a central point
How To Use radially symmetrical In A Sentence
- biradially symmetrical
- Radially symmetrical flowers, such as buttercups and tulips, have a single type of petal arranged the same way all around a center.
- Wild-type conidiophores are radially symmetrical and consist of a stalk with a single vesicle from which multiple primary sterigmata bud.
- Disk florets have a tubular corolla with five small radially symmetrical lobes and five connate anthers forming a cylinder around the style.
- Common larval types are used to deduce a radially symmetrical, medusa-like organism as the common ancestor for all animal groups above coelenterates, i.e., for all triploblastic animals.
- starfish are actinoid--that is, they are radially symmetrical
- Their larvae are free-swimming and NOT radially symmetrical. Starfish sex. | My[confined]Space
- What happens in plants such as buttercups, in which radially symmetrical flowers are the norm?
- Cnidarians are radially symmetrical, meaning that they're symmetrical around several axes, like the spokes in a bicycle wheel, whereas all the organisms depicted to the right of the cnidarian are bilaterally symmetrical, meaning they're only symmetrical around the head-to-tail axis (except for the echinoderms, which evolved radial symmetry independently). 2005 June - Telic Thoughts