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#141561 03/31/2005 4:29 PM
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Anyone know what a crinoid is - could it be some rudimentary life form with a large jaw-bone or something like that?


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didja do a search? I think we discussed this little arthropody-shell thingy a while back?

here's one:
http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=beheadingwords&Number=90435&
and another:
http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=wordplay&Number=61742

funny, I wasn't part of either of them. wonder what I'm thinking of?...


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#141563 03/31/2005 4:43 PM
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Thanks :)

I didn't quite understand one thing though - the second link said:
Syzygy (n.) The immovable union of two joints of a crinoidal arm.

So that may be where I picked up the jawbone idea... or not...

~ but how does this crinoidal thingy relate to the armless little critter of Dr Bill's definition?


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#141565 03/31/2005 8:48 PM
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You only just figgered that, Milo?! ;)



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