Definition of Antedon
:a large genus of recent and fossil comatulid crinoids having 10 or more arms
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Antedon
noun
An·te·don
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anˈtēdᵊn
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-ˌdän
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Origin and Etymology of antedon
borrowed from New Latin, of uncertain origin
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