pennatula

Latin

pennatula (plural pennatulas or pennatulae)

1. (zoology) Any of numerous species of Pennatula, Pteroides, and allied genera of Alcyonaria, having a feather-like form; a sea pen.

• “pennatula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “pennatula”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /penˈna.tu.la/
• Rhymes: -atula
• Hyphenation: pen‧nà‧tu‧la

pennatula f (plural pennatule)

1. sea pen (of order Pennatulacea)