Look up: radiata

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   Radiata
   Ra`di·a'ta (-ā'tȧ) noun plural [ New Latin , from radiatus , past participle See Radiate .] (Zoology) An extensive artificial group of invertebrates, having all the parts arranged radially around the vertical axis of the body, and the various organs repeated symmetrically in each ray or spheromere. » It includes the cœlenterates and the echinoderm ...
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   radiata
   <zoology> An extensive artificial group of invertebrates, having all the parts arranged radially around the vertical axis of the body, and the various organs repeated symmetrically in each ray or spheromere. ... It includes the coelenterates and the echinoderms. Formerly, the group was supposed to be a natural one, and was considered one of th ...
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   Radiata
   The `Radiata` are the radially symmetric animals of the Eumetazoa subregnum. The term `Radiata` has had various meanings in the history of classification. It has been applied to the echinoderms, although the echinoderms are members of the Bilateria, because they exhibit bilateral symmetry in their developing stages. Thomas Cavalier-Smith in 1983 defined a subkingdom called Radiata consisting of the phyla Porifera, Myxozoa, Placozoa, Cnidaria an...
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   Radiata
   • (n. pl.) An extensive artificial group of invertebrates, having all the parts arranged radially around the vertical axis of the body, and the various organs repeated symmetrically in each ray or spheromere.
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   Radiata
   (from the article `animal`) The two coelenterate phyla (Cnidaria and Ctenophora) advanced in complexity beyond the parazoans by developing incipient tissues—groups of cells that ...
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