Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sea anemone \Sea" a*nem"o*ne\ (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of soft-bodied Anthozoa, belonging to the order Actinaria; an actinian.
Note: They have the oral disk surrounded by one or more circles of simple tapering tentacles, which are often very numerous, and when expanded somewhat resemble the petals of flowers, with colors varied and often very beautiful.
Wiktionary
n. Any of many polyps, of the order ''Actiniaria'', which occurs in marine and estuarine habitats, and which captures its food using tentacles
WordNet
n. marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton [syn: anemone]
Wikipedia
Sea anemones are a group of water-dwelling, predatory animals of the order Actiniaria. They are named for the anemone, a terrestrial flower. Sea anemones are classified in the phylum Cnidaria, class Anthozoa, subclass Hexacorallia. Anthozoa often have large polyps that allow for digestion of larger prey and also lack a medusa stage. As cnidarians, sea anemones are related to corals, jellyfish, tube-dwelling anemones, and Hydra.
Many sea anemones form symbiotic relationships with single-celled dinoflagellates, whether zooxanthellae or zoochlorellae, that live within their cells.
The global trade in marine ornamentals for aquariums is rapidly expanding, and threatens sea anemone populations as the trade depends on collection from the wild, and the animals grow and reproduce relatively slowly.
Usage examples of "sea anemone".
But they're as far above a pitcher plant as a man is above a sea anemone, which is just as much an animal as a man is.
Or did it just read raw data, letting it flow past and through like a sea anemone sifting the ocean currents?
As pale and exotic as a sea anemone, the long fingers curled as tentacles curl artfully around an anemone's mouth, poised to snare, lazily but relentlessly, any passing prize.
He beckoned to the tall officer, fingers waving softly like the fronds of a virulent sea anemone.
I sometimes picture the entire town rising out of the shallow prehistoric ocean, unfolding like a sea anemone or the fingers of a rubber glove when you blow into it—.
Equally brightly colored crabs and other things crawled along the white coral sand, and here and there something like a sea anemone waved delicately in the water.
The inside of the thumb and the first two fingers were dotted with red points, where the stinging cells of the sea anemone had struck.
Water from the spout is rushing over his hair, moving it back and forth like the tendrils of a beautiful sea anemone.
The dark tail of hair flung down her naked back, spreading out in the water like a sea anemone, tendrils waving on the tide.