Usually means: Small pincers on starfish surfaces.
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  3. pedicellaria: Collins English Dictionary
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  8. Pedicellaria: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  10. pedicellaria: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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Definitions from Wiktionary (pedicellaria)

noun:  (biology) A small, stalk-shaped structure of the sea urchin and other echinoderms, which has three pincer-like structures at the end that perform cleaning functions and serve as defense against predators.

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