stereom

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noun

A calcium carbonate material which makes up the internal skeletons of echinoderms.

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Meanings

nounstereom (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA calcium carbonate material which makes up the internal skeletons of echinoderms.

    Two genera, Lagynocystis and Iaekelocarpus possess ctenoid organs. These thin folded sheets of stereom are of unknown function.

    1997 October, R[onald] L. Parsley, “The echinoderm classes Stylophora and Homoiostelea: non Calcichordata”, in The Paleontological Society Papers, volume 3, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 230

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sterome
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