Crossword-Solution: PENNATULA
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| Pennatula | n. | Any one of numerous species of Pennatula, Pteroides, and allied genera of Alcyonaria, having a featherlike form; a sea-pen. The zooids are situated along one edge of the side branches. |
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See Pennatula.] (Zoöl.) Defn: A division of alcyonoid corals, including the seapens and related kinds.
Beck of Copenhagen, that they were fossil zoophytes related to the genera _Pennatula_ and _Virgularia_, of which the living species now inhabit mud and slimy sediment.
The Pennatula, that pretty compound Halcyonoid, with its feather-like sprays, is another characteristic type of this fauna.
Here is a specimen of the Sea-pen (_Pennatula_), closely resembling a rather thick and fleshy feather, with its quill-end inserted in the tenacious marl which constitutes the floor of the sea along this shore, and with the greater part of its body, including all the pinnated portion, erect, and waving lightly in the gentle swell of the bay.
The genus Pennatula has a flatly-feathered, upright, calcareous axis, the bare part of which is analogous to the quill; but, instead of being fixed like the stem of a Gorgon, it is merely stuck into sand or mud at the bottom of the seas, while the upper feathered part, containing the polypes, remains in the water.