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sea fan

–noun
any of certain anthozoans, esp. Gorgonia flabellum, of the West Indies, in which the colony assumes a fanlike form.

Origin:
1625–35
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sea fan  
n.  Any of various yellowish to reddish fan-shaped corals of the genus Gorgonia, especially G. flabellum, of coastal waters of Florida and the West Indies.
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