feather star
a free-swimming crinoid.
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The rosy feather-star lives in rather deep water, from which it is sometimes brought up by means of the dredge.
The Animal World, A Book of Natural History | Theodore WoodOther movements of the feather star are equally interesting.
The Sea Shore | William S. FurneauxSo also does the beautiful rosy feather-star, but with certain modifications too interesting to be passed over.
Chatterbox, 1906 | VariousNow look at this one; the Feather-star, with arms almost like fern-fronds.
Madam How and Lady Why | Charles KingsleyThe Feather-star, so called in allusion to its tress-like arms.
The Ancient Life History of the Earth | Henry Alleyne Nicholson
British Dictionary definitions for feather star
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
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