sea anemone

noun

any sedentary marine animal of the phylum Coelenterata, having a columnar body and one or more circles of tentacles surrounding the mouth.

sea anemone

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.

First recorded in 1735–45

A single print of an enlarged sea anemone came across as a declaration rather than a suggestion.

A Metridium marginatum, the most common sea-anemone of this coast, was taken here which measured six inches in diameter.

The sea-anemone is soft and contractile, and belongs to the only order of this class which does not secrete a skeleton.

The healthy sea-anemone is less sensitive than the healthy human being.

It affected Gavan much as the suddenly contracting tentacles of a sea-anemone upon his finger might have done.

A much smaller animal than the Sea-Anemone is found in fresh water and is called Hydra.

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