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CIDE DICTIONARY

cystidea, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. a bladder, pouch.].

An order of Crinoidea, mostly fossils of the Paleozoic rocks. They were usually roundish or egg-shaped, and often unsymmetrical; some were sessile, others had short stems. [1913 Webster]

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