/ English Dictionary |
SEA ANEMONE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton
Synonyms:
anemone; sea anemone
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sea anemone" is a kind of...):
actinozoan; anthozoan (sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sea anemone"):
actinia; actinian; actiniarian (any sea anemone or related animal)
Holonyms ("sea anemone" is a member of...):
Actinaria; Actiniaria; order Actinaria; order Actiniaria (sea anemones)