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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sea lilynoun

    crinoid with delicate radiating arms and a stalked body attached to a hard surface

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  1. sea lilynoun

    Any of several stalked crinoids, which use the stalk to fix themselves in the bottom of the sea.

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  1. sea lily

    Crinoids are marine animals that make up the class Crinoidea. Crinoids that are attached to the sea bottom by a stalk in their adult form are commonly called sea lilies, while the unstalked forms are called feather stars or comatulids, which are members of the largest crinoid order, Comatulida. Crinoids are echinoderms in the phylum Echinodermata, which also includes the starfish, brittle stars, sea urchins and sea cucumbers. They live in both shallow water and in depths as great as 9,000 meters (30,000 ft).Adult crinoids are characterised by having the mouth located on the upper surface. This is surrounded by feeding arms, and is linked to a U-shaped gut, with the anus being located on the oral disc near the mouth. Although the basic echinoderm pattern of fivefold symmetry can be recognised, in most crinoids the five arms are subdivided into ten or more. These have feathery pinnules and are spread wide to gather planktonic particles from the water. At some stage in their lives, most crinoids have a stem used to attach themselves to the substrate, but many live attached only as juveniles and become free-swimming as adults. There are only about 700 living species of crinoid, but the class was much more abundant and diverse in the past. Some thick limestone beds dating to the mid-Paleozoic to Jurassic eras are almost entirely made up of disarticulated crinoid fragments.

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  1. sea lily

    A sea lily is a type of marine animal in the class Crinoidea of the phylum Echinodermata, also known as crinoids, that live in both shallow water and in depths as great as 6,000 meters. It resembles a plant but is actually an animal, characterized by a stalk with a flower-like body or crown at the top, covered with feathery arms that captures small particles of food from the water. The arms are covered with cilia that transport the food particles to the mouth located in the center of the crown.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sea lily

    a crinoid

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sea lily in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sea lily in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2


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