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Definition of Sea lily
1. Noun. Crinoid with delicate radiating arms and a stalked body attached to a hard surface.
Definition of Sea lily
1. Noun. Any of several stalked crinoids, which use the stalk to fix themselves in the bottom of the sea. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Sea lily
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sea Lily
Literary usage of Sea lily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Some Imagist Poets: An Anthology by Richard Aldington (1915)
"... sea lily slashed and torn, but doubly rich — such great heads as yours drift
upon temple'Steps, but you are shattered in the wind. ..."
2. A Textbook in General Zoology by Henry Richardson Linville, Henry Augustus Kelly (1906)
"Sea-Lily. Reduced as it were, on tiptoe, so that the ramifications of the arms
form a kind ... THE SEA-LILY At the present day we find here and there in the ..."
3. Charis: Essays in Honor of Sara A. Immerwahr by Sara Anderson Immerwahr, Anne Proctor Chapin (2004)
"The plants include the crocus, Madonna lily, sea lily (Pancratium lily), rose,
... 1 The sea lily (Pancratium maritimum L.), which grows on seaside sand ..."
4. Prospecting for Gold and Silver in North America by Arthur Lakes (1896)
"He may find remains of sea-weeds, corals and shells, and fragments of a sort of
sea-worm called a Crinoid, or sea-lily. The little discs with a hole in the ..."
5. English Mechanic and World of Science: With which are Incorporated "the (1882)
"The paper of the evening was read, "On the Sea-Lily ... From an example of a "
mend" in a fragment from the plume of a Sea-Lily, the subject of the ..."
6. Hunt's Yachting Magazine (1868)
"our bluff blue jackets would as soon thought of matching one of their vessels
with the tiny sea lily as of comparing Eclipse with a Shetland pony. ..."
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