Paxillus

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun One of a peculiar kind of spines covering the surface of certain starfishes. They are pillarlike, with a flattened summit which is covered with minute spinules or granules. ·see Illustration in Appendix.

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paxillus
paxillus, i, m., = πάσσαλος, a small stake, a peg. I Lit., Varr. ap. Non. 153, 9; Col. 4, 16, 3...

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