Definition of Family pennatulidae

1. Noun. Sea pens.

Exact synonyms: Pennatulidae
Generic synonyms: Coelenterate Family
Group relationships: Alcyonaria, Order Alcyonaria
Member holonyms: Genus Pennatula, Pennatula

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Pennatulidae

family Paridae
family Parkeriaceae
family Parmeliaceae
family Parulidae
family Patellidae
family Pectinidae
family Pedaliaceae
family Pediculidae
family Pelecanidae
family Pelecanoididae
family Pelobatidae
family Pempheridae
family Peneidae
family Pennatulidae
family Peramelidae
family Percidae
family Percophidae
family Peridiniidae
family Peripatidae
family Peripatopsidae
family Peronosporaceae
family Pertusariaceae
family Petromyzontidae
family Pezizaceae
family Phaethontidae
family Phalacrocoracidae
family Phalangeridae
family Phalangiidae

Literary usage of Family pennatulidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1906)
"... the representative genus of the family Pennatulidae, has a wider distribution in area and in depth. ..."

2. Lectures on Histology: Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England by John Thomas Quekett (1854)
"Having now described the general form and position of the skeleton in the family Pennatulidae, I proceed to illustrate the minute structure of these parts. ..."

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