Log in or Sign up
  1. pennatula love

Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The typical genus of Pennatulidæ the sea-pens. P. phosphorea is a European species. See cut under Alcyonaria.
  2. n. [lowercase] A polyp of the genus Pennatula; a sea-pen.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of Pennatula, Pteroides, and allied genera of Alcyonaria, having a featherlike form; a sea-pen. The zooids are situated along one edge of the side branches.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. type genus of the family Pennatulidae: sea pens

Examples

  • “Subtropical matorral habitats consist of Acacia pennatula mixed with other Acacia, Ipomoea and Bursera, interspersed with Opuntia, and Stenocereus.”

    Bajío dry forests

Log in or sign up to add your own related words.

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. coelenterate genus

reverse dictionary (6)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. pennatulacea
  1. pennatula
  1. pennatuloid
  1. sea pen
  1. sea-pen
  1. natantes

Wordmap

(beta)

Word visualization

Lists

‘pennatula’ hasn't been added to any lists yet.

Comments

No comments yet...

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

Tweets

Looking for tweets for pennatula.

‘pennatula’ has been looked up 168 times, and has a Scrabble score of 11.