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PRONUNCIATION OF SEA LILY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SEA LILY

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Sea lily is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SEA LILY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

sea lily

Bourgueticrinida

Bourgueticrinida is an order of crinoids that typically live deep in the ocean. Members of this order are attached to the seabed by a slender stalk and are known as sea lilies. While other groups of crinoids flourished during the Permian, bourgueticrinids along with other extant orders did not appear until the Triassic, following a mass extinction event in which nearly all crinoids died out.

Definition of sea lily in the English dictionary

The definition of sea lily in the dictionary is any of various sessile echinoderms, esp of the genus Ptilocrinus, in which the body consists of a long stalk attached to a hard surface and bearing a central disc with delicate radiating arms: class Crinoidea.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SEA LILY

sea king
sea lace
sea ladder
sea lamprey
sea lane
sea lavender
sea lawyer
sea legs
sea letter
sea lettuce
sea level
sea lift
sea lion
sea loch
Sea Lord
sea mat
sea mew
sea mile
sea milkwort
sea mouse

WORDS THAT END LIKE SEA LILY

African lily
arum lily
blackberry lily
calla lily
day lily
Easter lily
fawn lily
gild the lily
glory lily
lily
Madonna lily
mariposa lily
Mount Cook lily
Peruvian lily
plantain lily
pond lily
sword lily
tiger lily
water lily
white water lily
yellow water lily

Synonyms and antonyms of sea lily in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sea lily» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SEA LILY

Find out the translation of sea lily to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sea lily from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sea lily» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

海百合
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

lirio de mar
570 millions of speakers

English

sea lily
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

समुद्र लिली
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

زنبق البحر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

море лилии
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

lírio do mar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সমুদ্র লিলি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

lys de mer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lily laut
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Seelilie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

海のユリ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

바다 의 백합
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lily segara
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lily biển
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கடல் லில்லி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

समुद्र लिली
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Deniz zambak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

giglio di mare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

lilia morze
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

море лілії
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

crin de mare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κρίνος της θάλασσας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

see lelie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hav lilja
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Sjøliljene
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sea lily

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SEA LILY»

The term «sea lily» is normally little used and occupies the 139.383 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SEA LILY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «sea lily» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «sea lily» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sea lily

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEA LILY»

Discover the use of sea lily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sea lily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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International Wildlife Encyclopedia: Rifleman - sea slug
The sea lily Newmaster rubiginosa of the Caribbean Sea has branched arms, the outer parts of which have a membranous cellular tissue that produces the sex cells. SEA LILY These sea lilies, Anal- cidometra caribbea, are attached.
‎2002
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A Field Guide to Coral Reefs: Caribbean and Florida
SWIMMING SEA LILY Analcidometra armata 10 thin small arms — usually to 9 cm (3',,. in.l. Gray-green, with red hands. Pinnules banded red and white or orange-yellow. Usually elevated above substratum, attached to sea feathers, where it ...
Eugene Herbert Kaplan, Roger Tory Peterson, 1999
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The Sublime of Intense Sociability: Emily Dickinson, H.D., ...
Other poems in the volume, moreover, are determined to retain both of these seemingly competing worlds, the cultivated garden and its wild surroundings. In fact, they place poetic knowledge itself in the space between them. Both "Sea Lily " ...
Shawn Alfrey, 2000
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Encyclopedia of the Aquatic World: Starfish
At this stage the larva resembles a tiny sea lily and is known as a pentacrinoid. It will remain in this condition, growing larger and sprouting additional arms, for several months. The crown of arms eventually detaches from the stalk and begins  ...
Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2004
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Text Book Of General Zoology
SEA-LILY. At the present day we find here and there in the comparatively warm, deep waters of the ocean, •animals like that shown in Fig. 123 (Pentacri'nus bla' kei). In past geological eras the class to which the sea-lily belongs was far more ...
Linville & Kelly, 2006
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The American
... adorn the seashore. For the flower poems—“Sea Poppies,” “Sea Lily,” “Sea Violet,” “Sea Rose,” and “Sea Iris”—H.D. chooses plants that can survive on the edge between land and sea, in the danger this exposed position promises them,  ...
Annette Debo, 2012
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Echinoderms: Munchen: Proceedings of the 11th International ...
2 MATERIALS AND METHODS 2.1 Adults and embryos From our previous observations, the breeding season of the sea lily Metacrinus rotundus Carpenter (family Isocrinidae) was known to last from late August to late September. During that ...
Thomas Heinzeller, James H. Nebelsick, 2005
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The Cambridge Companion to
... the fact that the flower is meant to be 'flung on the sand', easily missed by passers-by (H.D., CP, p. 5). H.D. repeats this method in 'Sea Lily', where the reed's merciless crushing against the wind is transformed into the sea lily's act ...
Nephie J. Christodoulides, Polina Mackay, 2012
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Charis: Essays in Honor of Sara A. Immerwahr
The plants include the crocus, Madonna lily, sea lily (Pancratium lily), rose, dwarf iris, ivy, wild pea or vetch, cistus, convolvulus, honeysuckle, tulip, flowering rush, reed, mallow, and papyrus.67 There are also unidentified plants and varieties ...
Anne Proctor Chapin, 2004
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How to Find Your Light of Ecstasy Within: The Simple Way to ...
The sea lily is pointing direct up (vertical) at ninety degrees from the earth surface . The hagfish flows around horizontal or parallel to the earth's surface. These two creations constitute the Poles that are standing up vertical as the sea lily does ...
Bill Dugger, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SEA LILY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sea lily is used in the context of the following news items.
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Bozzo's Flutterby races for spot in Breeders' Cup
Flutterby's 9 1/4-length triumph in Gulfstream Park's Sea Lily Handicap in May meant ... win in her last outing in the Sea Lilly Handicap at Gulfstream on May 30. «Sun Sentinel, Jul 15»
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Sea lily
The sea lily (Bourgueticrinida) is an order of marine animals referred to as crinoids. They are typically found in deep ocean waters (to a depth of about 18,000 ... «Maritime Professional, Feb 15»
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Bill would designate 'elegant sea lily' as state fossil
Senate Bill 114 would add the elegant sea lily to Indiana's list of official items, which also include a state insect and a state pie. Republican Phil Boots of ... «WISH-TV, Jan 15»
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Is Indiana ready for a state fossil?
And that list reveals no other state has yet laid claim to the "elegant sea lily." ... Although it's called a sea lily, Elegantocrinus hemisphaericus is among a large ... «Indianapolis Star, Jan 15»
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Scientist Discovers New Species of Sea Lily, Auctioning Off Naming …
Prof Charles Messing from the Nova Southeastern University's Oceanographic Center is auctioning off the naming rights on eBay to a new species of sea lily he ... «Sci-News.com, Dec 14»
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Species for Sale: Naming Rights for Sea Lily Go Up for Auction
Charles Messing, a marine biologist at Nova Southeastern University in Florida, has just the thing: an entire species of sea lily. If you make the winning bid in an ... «NBCNews.com, Dec 14»
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Eleuthera, in the Bahamas, is an idyllic, relatively little-known paradise
Further south and back to Windermere Island, Mariah Carey's home, Sea Lily, can also be ... Here, relative solitude blends with sea breezes for a perfect respite. «New York Daily News, Mar 14»
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Clearing of Trancas and Sea Lily nursery properties bittersweet
Most of the tenants expect to move in within 4-6 weeks, while the nursery and Sea Lily flower shop target late summer as the date to move into their permanent ... «Malibu Times, Feb 13»
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Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon Selling $5.5m Bahamas Island …
The 4,000 square foot property named “Sea Lily” is nestled on Windermere Island and boasts three bedrooms, three bathrooms and a swimming pool at the front ... «Celebuzz, Jul 12»
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Indonesian, US Scientists Explore Seafloor, Discover Significant …
Sea lily. A stunning sea lily filters the current for food. ... “Stalked sea lilies once covered the ocean, shallow and deep, but now are rare,” said Verena Tunnicliffe, ... «NOAA, Aug 10»

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