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Definition of Sea anemone
1. Noun. Marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton.
Generic synonyms: Actinozoan, Anthozoan
Group relationships: Actinaria, Actiniaria, Order Actinaria, Order Actiniaria
Specialized synonyms: Actinia, Actinian, Actiniarian
Definition of Sea anemone
1. Noun. Any of many polyps, of the order ''Actiniaria'', which occurs in marine and estuarine habitats, and which captures its food using tentacles ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sea Anemone
Literary usage of Sea anemone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1889)
"Round the margin of the common sea-anemone is a bright blue spots, or small bladders.
If a section be m Fia. î. ..."
2. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"Each polyp ks like a small sea-anemone, being cylindrical in shape and possessing
a crown of tentacles. The most noticeable difference look §the presence of ..."
3. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"Digestion in the sea anemone.—The process here deserves a little consideration,
since it forms a kind of transition to that of the higher ..."
4. A Review of Copepoda Associated with Sea Anemones and Anemone-Like Forms by Arthur Grover Humes (1982)
"In several instances where hosts have been examined individually more than one
species of copepod occurs on a single sea anemone. In the New Caledonian ..."
5. A Textbook in General Zoology by Henry Richardson Linville, Henry Augustus Kelly (1906)
"The Sea-Anemone. The best-known sea-anemone of the North Atlantic coast is ...
An animal with the general plan of structure of the sea-anemone is called a ..."
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