Definition of Genus Pennatula

1. Noun. Type genus of the family Pennatulidae: sea pens.

Exact synonyms: Pennatula
Generic synonyms: Coelenterate Genus
Group relationships: Family Pennatulidae, Pennatulidae
Member holonyms: Sea Pen

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Pennatula

genus Pediculus
genus Pedilanthus
genus Pediocactus
genus Pedioecetes
genus Pedionomus
genus Peireskia
genus Pelargonium
genus Pelecanus
genus Pellaea
genus Pellicularia
genus Peltandra
genus Peltiphyllum
genus Penelope
genus Peneus
genus Penicillium
genus Pennatula (current term)
genus Pennisetum
genus Penstemon
genus Peperomia
genus Perca
genus Percina
genus Perdix
genus Pereskia
genus Pericallis
genus Peridinium
genus Perilla
genus Periophthalmus
genus Peripatopsis
genus Peripatus
genus Periplaneta

Literary usage of Genus Pennatula

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

1. The Copepodologist's Cabinet: A Biographical and Bibliographical History by David M. Damkaer (2002)
"Because of their feathery, leathery form, he placed them with the sea pens, in the genus Pennatula. This name is enshrined in the coelenterate order ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In the typical genus, Pennatula (fig. 8), the colony look» like a feather having a stem divisible into an upper moiety or rachis, bearing lateral central ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"These sea pens (so called from the resemblance, in the genus Pennatula, of the whole colony to a pen) move freely about in the mud or sand at the bottom of ..."

4. On Molecular and Microscopic Science by Mary Somerville (1869)
"The genus Pennatula has a flatly- feathered, upright, calcareous axis, the bare part of which is analogous to the quill; but, instead of being fixed like ..."

5. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1848)
"... and some without any habitats : amongst the latter there is a fine specimen of a Sea Pen, resembling the true genus Pennatula in general form, ..."

6. Publication by Palaeontographical Society (Great Britain) (1850)
"... so as to adhere to extraneous bodies. The polypi mass is consequently free. 1. Genus PENNATULA. (In parte.) Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., p. ..."

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