sea pen

/si pɛn/
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Other forms: sea pens

Definitions of sea pen
  1. noun
    fleshy featherlike warm-water colonies
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    type of:
    actinozoan, anthozoan
    sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed
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