单词 | pennatulid |
释义 | pennatulidn.adj. Zoology. A. n. A coelenterate of the family Pennatulidae; a sea pen. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Alcyonaria > suborder Pennatulacea > member of family Pennatulidae sea-feather1624 sea-pen1764 pen-fish1787 pennatulid1869 1869 Amer. Naturalist 2 606 He [sc. Professor Sars] has discovered in all one Pennatulid, One Ophiurid, five Worms (chiefly Chætopods), five Bivalves, five Crustacea, and two Fishes. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. v. 107 Standing by themselves in some ways are the sea-pens, which form among the Alcyonarians the order of Pennatulids. 1986 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 313 71 Bilaterally symmetrical pennatulids also orient with their polyps facing downstream. B. adj. Of or relating to the family Pennatulidae. ΚΠ 1885 Amer. Naturalist 19 89 The remaining species belong to the alcyonarian genera Sarcophyton..and the pennatulid genera Gladiscus, Kophobelemnon, Leptotilum and Pinnatula. 1915 Sci. Monthly Dec. 270 An interesting case of absorption of parts came to my notice while studying the larvæ of the pennatulid coral Renilla. 1991 R. S. K. Barnes & K. H. Mann Fund. Aquatic Ecol. (ed. 2) viii. 154/2 A few benthic colonies can ‘creep’ slowly over the substratum (e.g. some pennatulid and coral cnidarians, and one or two bryozoans and compound sea squirts). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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