radial symmetry: Meaning and Definition of

ra'dial sym'metry

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— Biol. Biol.
  1. a basic body plan in which the organism can be divided into similar halves by passing a plane at any angle along a central axis, characteristic of sessile and bottom-dwelling animals, as the sea anemone and starfish. Cf.
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