ECHINODERM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does echinoderm mean? 

• ECHINODERM (noun)
  The noun ECHINODERM has 1 sense:

1. marine invertebrates with tube feet and five-part radially symmetrical bodies

  Familiarity information: ECHINODERM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ECHINODERM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marine invertebrates with tube feet and five-part radially symmetrical bodies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("echinoderm" is a kind of...):

invertebrate (any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification)

Meronyms (parts of "echinoderm"):

water vascular system (system of fluid-filled tubes used by echinoderms in locomotion and feeding and respiration)

ambulacrum (one of the five areas on the undersurface of an echinoderm on which the tube feet are located)

tube foot (tentacular tubular process of most echinoderms (starfish and sea urchins and holothurians) having a sucker at the end and used for e.g. locomotion and respiration)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "echinoderm"):

sea star; starfish (echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk)

brittle-star; brittle star; serpent star (an animal resembling a starfish with fragile whiplike arms radiating from a small central disc)

basket fish; basket star (any starfish-like animal of the genera Euryale or Astrophyton or Gorgonocephalus having slender complexly branched interlacing arms radiating from a central disc)

sea urchin (shallow-water echinoderms having soft bodies enclosed in thin spiny globular shells)

crinoid (primitive echinoderms having five or more feathery arms radiating from a central disk)

holothurian; sea cucumber (echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders)

Holonyms ("echinoderm" is a member of...):

Echinodermata; phylum Echinodermata (radially symmetrical marine invertebrates including e.g. starfish and sea urchins and sea cucumbers)

 Context examples 

This protein contains the amino acids encoded by exons 1-6a of the echinoderm microtubule-associated protein-like 4 and the entire cytoplasmic region of the ALK tyrosine kinase receptor protein including the tyrosine kinase domain.

(EML4/ALK Fusion Protein Variant 3a, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein contains the amino acids encoded by exons 1-6b of the echinoderm microtubule-associated protein-like 4 and the entire cytoplasmic region of the ALK tyrosine kinase receptor protein including the tyrosine kinase domain.

(EML4/ALK Fusion Protein Variant 3b, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is comprised of the extreme N-terminus of the echinoderm microtubule-associated protein-like 4 fused to the entire cytoplasmic domain of the ALK tyrosine kinase receptor protein including the tyrosine kinase domain.

(EML4/ALK Fusion Protein Variant 5a, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is comprised of the most of the echinoderm microtubule-associated protein-like 4 fused to the entire cytoplasmic domain of the ALK tyrosine kinase receptor protein including the tyrosine kinase domain.

(EML4/ALK Fusion Protein Variant 2, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is comprised of the N-terminal half of the echinoderm microtubule-associated protein-like 4 fused to the entire cytoplasmic domain of the ALK tyrosine kinase receptor protein including the tyrosine kinase domain.

(EML4/ALK Fusion Protein Variant 1, NCI Thesaurus)

Echinoderm microtubule-associated protein like 4 (981 aa, ~109 kDa) is encoded by the human EML4 gene.

(Echinoderm Microtubule-Associated Protein-Like 4, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele which encodes echinoderm microtubule-associated protein like 4, may be involved in the modulation of microtubule assembly.

(EML4 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is comprised of the N-terminal portion of the echinoderm microtubule-associated protein-like 4 fused to the C-terminus of the ALK tyrosine kinase receptor protein including the entire cytoplasmic portion with the tyrosine kinase domain.

(EML4/ALK Fusion Protein, NCI Thesaurus)