Definition of Sea fan. Meaning of Sea fan. Synonyms of Sea fan

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Definition of Sea fan

Sea fan
Sea fan Sea" fan" (Zo["o]l.) Any gorgonian which branches in a fanlike form, especially Gorgonia flabellum of Florida and the West Indies.

Meaning of Sea fan from wikipedia

- (14 km). At the bottom of the continental slope, it enters the Congo deep-sea fan and extends for an additional 220 km. The turbidity currents found in Congo...
- deep sea, polar waters, tropics and subtropics. Common names for subsets of this order are sea fans and sea whips; others are similar to the sea pens...
- for yeast metabolism Sea fan, a marine animal of the cnidarian phylum Fan (geometry), the set of all planes through a given line Fan (order), a class of...
- Gorgonia ventalina, the common sea fan and purple sea fan, is a species of sea fan, an octocoral in the family Gorgoniidae. It is found in the western...
- The multicoloured sea fan (Melithaea rubra) is a species of gorgonian sea fan in the family Melithaeidae. The sea fan colony grows up to about 30 cm high...
- Venus fan, Venus sea fan, West Indian sea fan, and purple gorgonian seafan, is a species of sea fan, a sessile colonial soft coral. The Venus sea fan is...
- Abyssal fans, also known as deep-sea fans, underwater deltas, and submarine fans, are underwater geological structures ****ociated with large-scale sediment...
- The palmate sea fan (Leptogorgia palma) is a species of gorgonian sea fan in the family Gorgoniidae. This fan grows up to 2 meters in total height and...
- The sinuous sea fan (Eunicella tricoronata) is a species of gorgonian sea fan in the family Gorgoniidae. This fan is flattened and has curving branches...
- The nippled sea fan Eunicella microthela (Lamouroux, 1816) previously known by the junior synonym Eunicella papillosa (Esper, 1797), is a species of gorgonian...