Biology, Natural sciences, Zoology Of or relating to the Asteroidea.
These are marine asteroidian limestones forming the slopes and the plateau of Saint-Emilion.1990, Bernard Ginestet, Saint-Emilion, page 27:
This response to my innocent enough inquiry caused many in his audience to immediately question the relevance of what, beforehand, had appeared to be a significant elucidation of an aspect of asteroidian biology .2013, W.J., Jr. Adelman, J.M. Arnold, D.L. Gilbert, Squid as Experimental Animals, page 32:
asteroidian
noun
Etymology From taxonomic name Asteroidea + -ian.
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A starfish; one of the Asteroidea.
When considered by contribution to total biomass, the rank order was as follows: Paelopatides gigantea, a holthuroidian; Ophiomusium lymani; Zoroaster fulgens; Echinus affinis; Dyaster insignis, an asteroidian (Table 2) .1977, Baseline Report of Environmental Conditions in Deepwater Dumpsite, page 454:
asteroidian
adj
Etymology From asteroid + -ian.
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Of or pertaining to an asteroid.
Urey is opposed to this theory and holds the view that the asteroids are of asteroidian origin.1963, Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts - Volume 14, page 341:
However, in the end, when the asteroidian security force filed their report, all of the tenants claimed that they had seen nothing.2009, Joseth Moore, Asteropia: Book 2 of the Lunar Series, page 203:
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Quail were often kept as pets, and peacocks are for show and often used as watch-fowl in the enclaves where the wealthy asteroidian denizens lived.2021, Bob Freeman, H2LiftShips - Beyond Luna, page 105:
But you remained conservative, A changeless asteroidian.1932, California Poets: An Anthology of 244 Contemporaries, page 706:
Whatever else can be said about the world inhabited by Lesabéndio and his fellow asteroidians, this much is certain: their proper names derive from the first sounds they emit, not from a procedure of designation akin to the establishment of technical terms, and the laws governing the waxing and waning of their bodies are unlike those under which the bodies on the surface of the earth fall.2011, Peter Fenves, The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time, page 230:
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What gags Flora is that Rod blew the Saturnienne to protect the asteroidians against North American culture , even though that cut him off from one wife, one concubine, and one son.2014, E. Hoffmann Price, Operation Longlife, page 157: