sea anemone
any sedentary marine animal of the phylum Coelenterata, having a columnar body and one or more circles of tentacles surrounding the mouth.
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Hydra belong to a larger group of invertebrates called cnidarians, which also includes sea anemones, corals, and jellyfish.
Hydras can regrow their heads. Scientists want to know how they do it. | Kate Baggaley | December 8, 2021 | Popular-ScienceWe watched sea anemones wage slow-motion war, lashing each other with toxic stinging cells.
8 ‘insignificant’ creatures that will make you dream about the ocean | Craig Foster and Ross Frylinck | December 1, 2021 | Popular-ScienceHis daughter remarked that the leaf’s trichomes — structures that help protect plants and other organisms from extreme weather and insects — looked like sea anemones.
A beautiful oak leaf portrait won the 2021 Nikon Small World photography contest | Erin Garcia de Jesús | September 13, 2021 | Science NewsPlough tracks remain etched on the seafloor 30 years later, while populations of sponges, soft corals and sea anemones have yet to return.
A Climate Solution Lies Deep Under the Ocean—But Accessing It Could Have Huge Environmental Costs | Aryn Baker | September 7, 2021 | TimeThis is the place to admire wildlife—the tide pools out front are filled with sea anemones, and the beach is often a resting ground for ospreys and bald eagles.
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-beach at Ebb-tide | Augusta Foote ArnoldThe sea-anemone is soft and contractile, and belongs to the only order of this class which does not secrete a skeleton.
The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide | Augusta Foote ArnoldThe healthy sea-anemone is less sensitive than the healthy human being.
The Modern Malady | Cyril BennettIt affected Gavan much as the suddenly contracting tentacles of a sea-anemone upon his finger might have done.
The Shadow of Life | Anne Douglas SedgwickA much smaller animal than the Sea-Anemone is found in fresh water and is called Hydra.
Stories of the Universe: Animal Life | B. Lindsay
British Dictionary definitions for sea anemone
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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Scientific definitions for 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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