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Webster 1913 Edition
Comatula
‖
Co-mat′u-la
(?; 135)
, Noun.
[NL., fr. L.
comatulus
having hair neatly curled, dim. fr. coma
hair.] (Zool.)
A crinoid of the genus
Antedon
and related genera. When young they are fixed by a stem. When adult they become detached and cling to seaweeds, etc., by their dorsal cirri; – called also feather stars
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