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sea mat

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noun

  1. a popular name for a bryozoan

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What are we to say of a sponge, or a sea anemone, of corals, of zoophytes growing rooted from oyster shells, of sea squirts, and of sea mats?

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This last remark holds especially true of the zoophytes and the sea mats.

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