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单词 feather star
释义

feather star


noun

a free-swimming crinoid.

Origin of feather star

First recorded in 1860–65

Words nearby feather star

feather one's own nest, feather palm, feather rot, feathers, feather shot, feather star, featherstitch, feather-tail glider, feather tract, feather-veined, featherweight
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Example sentences from the Web for feather star

  • The Feather-star, so called in allusion to its tress-like arms.

    The Ancient Life History of the Earth|Henry Alleyne Nicholson
  • Now look at this one; the Feather-star, with arms almost like fern-fronds.

    Madam How and Lady Why|Charles Kingsley
  • Feather-star, one of the stalkless echinoderms belonging to the Crinoidea.

    The New Gresham Encyclopedia|Various

British Dictionary definitions for feather star

feather star

noun

any free-swimming crinoid echinoderm of the genus Antedon and related genera, living on muddy sea bottoms and having ten feathery arms radiating from a small central disc
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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