SEA PEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sea pen mean? 

• SEA PEN (noun)
  The noun SEA PEN has 1 sense:

1. fleshy featherlike warm-water colonies

  Familiarity information: SEA PEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEA PEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fleshy featherlike warm-water colonies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sea pen" is a kind of...):

actinozoan; anthozoan (sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed)

Holonyms ("sea pen" is a member of...):

genus Pennatula; Pennatula (type genus of the family Pennatulidae: sea pens)