Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Cuvier's classification, the third tribe of the coral family, corresponding to the modern Pennatulaceæ of alcyonarian polyps. It contained the genera Pennatula. Virgularia, Veretillum, and Umbellularia.
- noun In Lamarek's classification (1801–12), an order of Polypi, containing the crinoids.
- noun In Walckenaer's classification, a division of spiders, such as those of the genus Argyroneta; the diving- or water-spiders.
- noun The swimming birds. See
Natatores .
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Examples
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And, finally, in the fleshy living mass which surrounds the bony and hollow axis of the polypi natantes, we have a sketch of the vertebrata.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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Adfertur squillas inter murcena natantes In patina porrcBa.
Six satires. In a style between free imitation and literal version Clubbe, William 1795
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Sic etiam crocodili carnes in aqux fuperficie natantes feftantur.
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Njtat; '] Inilabills eft: ficut natantes modo contra ilumen, modd currentc fcruaiur amne.,
Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera Horace, Ludovicus Desprez, André Dacier 1793
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