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blastoidea
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blastoidea, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. blasto`s sprout + -oid.].
One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form. [1913 Webster]
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