Crinoids became the most abundant echinoderms of the Ordovician, and some were the ancestors of today's stalkless feather stars and stalked sea lilies.
A pollinium, when highly developed, consists of a mass of pollen-grains, affixed to an elastic foot-stalk or caudicle, and this to a little mass of extremely viscid matter.
A sickle has a longer handle and a larger blade, so think of a scythe as big daddy's death, and a sickle as a gift for his firstborn's, first birthday.