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Breaking away from the traditions of its tribe -- the sea-lilies -- it cuts itself off from the stalk, and grows in its place a number of short finger-like processes, and lo! from a sea-lily it becomes the rosy feather-star!
Chatterbox, 1906 Various 1873
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So also does the beautiful rosy feather-star, but with certain modifications too interesting to be passed over.
Chatterbox, 1906 Various 1873
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This very feather-star, soon after it is born, grows a tiny stalk, by which it holds on to corallines and sea-weeds; and it is not till afterwards that it breaks loose from that stalk, and swims away freely into the wide water.
Madam How and Lady Why Charles Kingsley 1847
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