feather star

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Определение feather star в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь

Any of numerous crinoids of the genus Antedon and related genera, having a free-swimming, stalkless adult stage with branched feathery arms. Any of the 550 living species of crinoid echinoderms (class Crinoidea) that lack the stalk that their relatives the sea lilies use to attach themselves to the ocean bottom. Most species have five feathery-fringed arms. Feather stars usually attach themselves to a surface or a floating object and feed on drifting microorganisms, trapping them in their sticky arm grooves. They live mainly on rocky bottoms in shallow water. Most abundant from the Indian Ocean to Japan, they are also found in the Atlantic

free-swimming stalkless crinoid with ten feathery arms; found on muddy sea bottoms

Связанные Термины

feather stars

antedonidae

Расстановка переносов

feath·er star

Турецкое произношение

fedhır stär

Произношение

/ˈfeᴛʜər ˈstär/ /ˈfɛðɜr ˈstɑːr/