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Definition of Sea fan
1. Noun. Corals having a treelike or fan-shaped horny skeleton.
Definition of Sea fan
1. Noun. Any gorgonian which branches in a fan-like form, especially ''Gorgonia flabellum'' of Florida and the West Indies. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Sea fan
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sea Fan
Literary usage of Sea fan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Toilers in the Sea by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1889)
"SEA - FAN MAKERS. A MONGST the most common objects of the sea- •**• shore, all
around our coasts, are those strange looking, scarcely handsome, ..."
2. The Standard Natural History by John Sterling Kingsley, Frederich Anton Heller von Hellwald, Elliott Coues (1884)
"The sea- fan has a hard central axis, and a still softer rind which can be easily
broken off, and at the death of the animal is almost wholly deciduous. ..."
3. Ocean World: A Description of the Sea & Its Living Inhabitants by Louis Figuier (1869)
"The network of its interstices with its unequal and serried meshes, resembling
fine lace, have led to its designation of sea fan. Its colour is yellow or ..."
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