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Definition of Feather star
1. Noun. Free-swimming stalkless crinoid with ten feathery arms; found on muddy sea bottoms.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Feather Star
Literary usage of Feather star
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sea and Its Living Wonders: A Popular Account of the Marvels of the Deep by Georg Hartwig (1892)
"... Feather-Star.—Brittle and Sand-Stars.—The real Sea-Stars of the British Waters.
—The Sea-Urchins. ..."
2. The Standard Library of Natural History: Embracing Living Animals of the by Charles John Cornish (1908)
"... themselves and secrete a foot-stalk, to which they remain affixed, like the
young of the feather star-fish, for the earlier epoch of their existence. ..."
3. Chapters on Evolution by Andrew Wilson (1883)
"ROSY FEATHER-sTAR AND YOUNG. in due course attaches itself by a stalk, and the
future Crinoid is ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1867)
"In the description of the " Rosy feather star" at page 16 of the "British Star
Fishes" by the late Professor Edward Forbes, he, after mentioning its ..."
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