plumose skeleton
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a type of skeletal construction made of primary fibres or spicule tracts from which skeletal elements obliquely radiate.

Alternative form for plumose skeleton : plumosely arranged spicules.

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from Wiedenmayer, 1977

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SEM of Acarnus souriei by F. Hiemstra