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Examples of sea lily in a Sentence
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Most closely related to sea urchins, sea stars (aka starfish), sea lilies, and sand dollars, these bottom-dwellers range from as small as one inch long up to six feet.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 Nov. 2023
From slimy sea cucumbers to fan-like sea lilies, the mysterious creatures live in complete darkness.
—Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 June 2023
This sea lily was among them.
—Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2022
Pigments not known from modern organisms have come to light, too, including some from fossil sea lilies and algae dating to between 300 million and 150 million years ago.
—Jakob Vinther, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2017
Two cling gobies spend their entire lives among the tentacles of a sea lily, a close relative of sea stars that extends its tentacles to capture plankton in the water.
—Enric Sala, Discover Magazine, 22 Sep. 2015
The work is a meditative visual poem about the passage of time set against a stone wall carved with sea lily fossils.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2019
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Word History
First Known Use
1851, in the meaning defined above
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“Sea lily.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sea%20lily. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
sea lily
noun
: crinoid
especially
: a crinoid that has a stalk
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