feather star
noun
a free-swimming crinoid.
Origin of feather star
First recorded in 1860–65
Words nearby feather star
Example sentences from the Web for feather star
The Feather-star, so called in allusion to its tress-like arms.
The Ancient Life History of the Earth |Henry Alleyne NicholsonNow look at this one; the Feather-star, with arms almost like fern-fronds.
Madam How and Lady Why |Charles KingsleyFeather-star, one of the stalkless echinoderms belonging to the Crinoidea.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia |Various
British Dictionary definitions for feather star
feather star
noun
any free-swimming crinoid echinoderm of the genus Antedon and related genera, living on muddy sea bottoms and having ten feathery arms radiating from a small central disc