(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:44:50

Tes`sel*la"ta (?), n. pl. [NL. See Tessellate.] Zool.

A division of Crinoidea including numerous fossil species in which the body is covered with tessellated plates.

 

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