sea-spoutn.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Zoantharia > suborder Actiniaria > member of
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1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope II. 212 The Sea-Spout is a very strange production of nature. It looks like a spunge or lump of moss, and sticks to the sea-rocks so fast that no beating of either winds or waves can move it.
1790 Coll. Voy. round World I. xii. 323 The sea-spout..is of a green colour, emits water, and within is like a tough piece of flesh.
2. (See quot. 1867.)
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the world > the earth > water > fountain > [noun] > jet or spout
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sea-spout1867
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Sea-spout, the jetting of sea-water over the adjacent lands, when forced through a perforation in a rocky shore; both its egress and ingress are attended with a rumbling noise, and the spray is often injurious to the surrounding vegetation.
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