pedicellaria

الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية

تعريف pedicellaria في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.

A small, stalk-shaped structure of the sea urchin and other echinoderms, which has three pincer-like structures at the end that perform cleaning functions and serve as defense against predators

See Illustration in Appendix

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