Sea Anemone Definition

noun
Any of an order (Actiniaria) of flowerlike, anthozoan sea polyps having a firm, gelatinous, often large, body without a skeleton, topped with petal-like tentacles: they are often brightly colored and live attached to rocks, pilings, etc.
Webster's New World
Attributive form of sea anemone.
Sea-anemone look.
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Noun

Singular:
sea anemone
Plural:
sea-anemones

Sea Anemone Sentence Examples

  • I need help to identify a sea anemone I saw in my last dive.

  • The Anthozoa differ from the Scyphomedusae in having no medusoid form; they all more or less resemble a sea-anemone, and may be termed actinioid.

  • The most familiar Anthozoan is the common sea-anemone, Actinia equina, L., and it will serve, although it does not form a skeleton or corallum, as a good example of the structure of a typical Anthozoan polyp or zooid.

  • In the common sea-anemone, Actinia equina (which has already been quoted as a type of Anthozoan structure), the mesenteries are numerous and are arranged in cycles.

  • The stiller waters of the inner lagoon are home to the rare starlet sea anemone.

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