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Definition of Pennatula
1. Noun. Type genus of the family Pennatulidae: sea pens.
Generic synonyms: Coelenterate Genus
Group relationships: Family Pennatulidae, Pennatulidae
Member holonyms: Sea Pen
Definition of Pennatula
1. n. Any one of numerous species of Pennatula, Pteroides, and allied genera of Alcyonaria, having a featherlike form; a sea-pen. The zooids are situated along one edge of the side branches.
Medical Definition of Pennatula
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Origin: NL, fr. L. Penna a feather.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pennatula
Literary usage of Pennatula
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Animal and Vegetable Physiology: Considered with Reference to Natural Theology by Peter Mark Roget (1836)
"Cuvier even represents the polypes of the pennatula as having the power of keeping
lime, while they are waving the mass through the water, as if they were ..."
2. The Edinburgh Journal of Science by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1827)
"A more singular and beautiful spectacle could scarcely be conceived, than that
of a deep purple pennatula ..."
3. The Edinburgh Journal of Science by Sir David Brewster (1827)
"A more singular and beautiful spectacle could scarcely be conceived, than that
of a deep purple pennatula ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and (1823)
"... syringa, "cuscuta, * pustulosa, •frutescens, swallowing them. The indigestible
parts are agan - th row n out by the mouth. pinaster, pennatula, ..."
5. A Manual of Zoology by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1870)
"pennatula (fig. 32), or the " Cock's-comb," consists of a free ... 33), which,
like pennatula, occurs not ..."
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