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flustra|ˈflʌstrə| Pl. flustræ, -as. [a. mod.L. flustra.] The typical genus of polyzoa or bryozoa of the family Flustridæ; the sea-mat. The name was first used by Linnæus (Fauna Suec. ed. 2. 1761), who says that he has substituted it for the older name Eschara, because the latter was ‘homonymous with the name of a disease’; but he does not give the etymology.
1825Hamilton Handbk. Terms, Flustra, the sea-mat. 1855Kingsley Glaucus (1878) 73 Here are Flustræ, or sea-mats. 1860Maury Phys. Geog. Sea xiii. §560 The leaf-like flustras and escharas. |