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radiata
Part of speech: NounIn zool., one of the lowest divisions of the animal kingdom, including all those animals whose parts are disposed round a central axis in a radiated form, like that of the star- fish.
Usage examples "radiata":- Oldhamia radiata: O. antiqua. - "The Student's Elements of Geology", Sir Charles Lyell.
- They were all placed among Cuvier's Radiata, but, as Huxley said in the first line of his memoir: " Perhaps no class of animals has been investigated with so little satisfactory and comprehensive result, and this not for the want of patience and ability on the part of the observers, but rather because they have contented themselves with stating matters of detail concerning particular genera and species, instead of giving broad and general views of the whole class, considered as organised upon a given type, and inquiring into its relations with other families." - "Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work", P. Chalmers Mitchell.
- The third and fourth volumes are devoted to the Radiata, and consist of five parts, namely: 1st. - "Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence", Louis Agassiz.