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Webster 1913 Edition

Stylaster

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Sty-las′ter

,

Noun.

[NL., from Gr.

στῦλοσ

pillar +

ἀστήρ

star.]

(Zool.)

Any one of numerous species of delicate, usually pink, calcareous hydroid corals of the genus

Stylaster

.