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sea anemone

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sea anemone
n.
Any of numerous flowerlike marine coelenterates of the class Anthozoa, having a flexible cylindrical body and tentacles surrounding a central mouth.
sea anemone
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various anthozoan coelenterates, esp of the order Actiniaria, having a polypoid body with oral rings of tentacles See also actinia
sea anemone
Any of numerous, often brightly colored cnidarians of the class Anthozoa, having flexible cylindrical bodies with tentacles surrounding a central mouth. Sea anemones are related to jellyfish and corals, but have no free-swimming (medusoid) stage, and resemble flowers.
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Noun1.sea anemonesea anemone - marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton
anemone
actinozoan, anthozoan - sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed
Actinaria, Actiniaria, order Actinaria, order Actiniaria - sea anemones
actinian, actiniarian, actinia - any sea anemone or related animal
Translations
sea anemone n → anemone m di mare, attinia
sea anemone n → anemone m di mare, attinia


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They had not intended to spend the afternoon, but found themselves too fascinated to turn away from the breakers bursting upon the rocks and from the many kinds of colorful sea life starfish, crabs, mussels, sea anemones, and, once, in a rock-pool, a small devilfish that chilled their blood when it cast the hooded net of its body around the small crabs they tossed to it.
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I had been restless, dreaming most disagreeably that I was drowned, and that sea anemones were feeling over my face with their soft palps.
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