feather star

1. 1.

   free-swimming stalkless crinoid with ten feathery arms; found on muddy sea bottoms

   Synonymscomatulid

   Broadercrinoid

   Part ofAntedon

Questions about feather star

What does feather star mean?

feather star means "free-swimming stalkless crinoid with ten feathery arms; found on muddy sea bottoms".

What is another word for feather star?

Close synonyms include comatulid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is feather star a common word?

feather star is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.