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SEA PEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fleshy featherlike warm-water colonies
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sea pen" is a kind of...):
actinozoan; anthozoan (sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed)
Holonyms ("sea pen" is a member of...):
genus Pennatula; Pennatula (type genus of the family Pennatulidae: sea pens)