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sea-pen
[pen n.2]
A polyp of the genus Pennatula or family Pennatulidæ.
1763J. Ellis in Phil. Trans. LIII. 420 This Animal was well known to the ancients by the name of the Sea-Pen. 1768Solander Let. to J. Ellis in Ann. Reg. (1769) XII. 188/2 We can hardly buy a plate of shrimps [at Rio de Janeiro], without finding a dozen of your Pennatula reniformis, or kidney shaped sea pen, among them. 1840F. D. Bennett Whaling Voy. II. 102 The sandy beach of the bay is strewn with..sponges, sea-pens [etc.]. 1879E. P. Wright Anim. Life 591 fig., The sea pen (Pteroides spinosus). 1883C. F. Holder in Harper's Mag. Jan. 184/2 The sea⁓pens are remarkable for their phosphorescence. |