Definition of Feather star

1. Noun. Free-swimming stalkless crinoid with ten feathery arms; found on muddy sea bottoms.

Exact synonyms: Comatulid
Generic synonyms: Crinoid
Group relationships: Antedon, Genus Antedon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Feather Star

feather-heeled
feather-veined
feather ball
feather bed
feather beds
feather boa
feather duster
feather dusters
feather geranium
feather in one's cap
feather one's nest
feather one's own nest
feather palm
feather pen
feather star (current term)
feather wool
featherback
featherbed
featherbedded
featherbedding
featherbeddings
featherbeds
featherbrain
featherbrained
featherbrains
featherdown
feathered
featheredge
featheredged

Literary usage of Feather star

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

1. The Sea and Its Living Wonders: A Popular Account of the Marvels of the Deep by Georg Hartwig (1892)
"... Feather-Star.—Brittle and Sand-Stars.—The real Sea-Stars of the British Waters. —The Sea-Urchins. ..."

2. The Standard Library of Natural History: Embracing Living Animals of the by Charles John Cornish (1908)
"... themselves and secrete a foot-stalk, to which they remain affixed, like the young of the feather star-fish, for the earlier epoch of their existence. ..."

3. Chapters on Evolution by Andrew Wilson (1883)
"ROSY FEATHER-sTAR AND YOUNG. in due course attaches itself by a stalk, and the future Crinoid is ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1867)
"In the description of the " Rosy feather star" at page 16 of the "British Star Fishes" by the late Professor Edward Forbes, he, after mentioning its ..."

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