sea anemone


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sea anemone

n.
Any of numerous often colorful marine anthozoans of the order Actiniaria, having a flexible cylindrical body and a mouth surrounded by tentacles, and resembling a flower.
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sea anemone

n
(Animals) any of various anthozoan coelenterates, esp of the order Actiniaria, having a polypoid body with oral rings of tentacles. See also actinia
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sea′ anem`one


n.
any solitary, attached marine polyp of the order Actinaria, having a firm, gelatinous body topped with tentacles.
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sea anemone

Any of numerous often brightly colored ocean-dwelling animals that resemble flowers and are related to the jellyfish and corals. Anemones are cnidarians and have a flexible cylindrical body with tentacles surrounding a central mouth.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.sea anemone - marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentaclessea anemone - marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton
actinozoan, anthozoan - sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed
actinian, actiniarian, actinia - any sea anemone or related animal
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Translations
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anemon

sea anemone

nanemone 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.
I had been restless, dreaming most disagreeably that I was drowned, and that sea anemones were feeling over my face with their soft palps.
The fried egg sea anemone, baked bean sea squirt, hot cross bun jellyfish, prawn cracker sponge, curled octopus and undulate ray are all thriving.
The fried egg sea anemone has had a cracking return, along with the hot cross bun jelly fish, prawn cracker sponge, curled octopus and undulate ray.
Smudge found the clownfish and sea anemone, two species that work together in a symbiotic ocean partnership.
Certain species of sea anemone live in tightly packed communities, among clonemates and non-clonemates.
The giant Caribbean sea anemone Condylactis gigantea (Weinland, 1860) (Actiniaria, Actiniidae) is one of the most common and well-known actiniarian species that inhabits in coastal and coral reefs environments of the Western Atlantic Ocean, and is distributed from Bermuda to southeast Brazil, and along the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea (Gonzalez-Munoz, Simoes, Sanchez-Rodriguez, Rodriguez, & Segura-Puertas, 2012).
Biochemical study of venom sea anemone Phymactis papillosa (Actiniidae)
In a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the University of Florida scientist and colleagues found genes known to form hearts cells in humans and other animals in the gut of a muscle-less and heartless sea anemone. But the sea anemone isn't just any sea creature.
In the model sea anemone Exaiptasia pallida, Burriesci and collaborators [13] specified that glucose is the major translocated photosynthate in this symbiosis.
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The garaban, or hell's fire sea anemone (Actinodendron plumosum), is endemic to the seas of the Indo-Pacific, sometimes known as the Indo-West Pacific, a biogeographic region comprising the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, the western and central Pacific Ocean, and those connecting them in Indonesia.