||Ra`di*a"ta (-ā"t&adot;),
n. pl. [NL., fr. radiatus, p. p. See Radiate.]
(Zoöl.) An extensive artificial group of invertebrates, having all the parts arranged radially around the vertical axis of the body, and the various organs repeated symmetrically in each ray or spheromere.
&fist; It includes the cœlenterates and the echinoderms. Formerly, the group was
supposed to be a
natural one, and was considered one of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom.