anemone
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- noun
- /əˈnɛməni/
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anémona de mar
- Clownfish, as the movie suggests, have a special symbiotic relationship with certain species of sea anemone.
- sea anemones
- anemone's tentacles
Examples
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I live in this anemone and I'm used to these kind of stings.
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And remember, the anemone stings.
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And like an anemone, each presented its mouth to the sea.
Academic text (1992) -
Do you want this anemone to sting you?
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And in return, the fish helps protect its host anemone from predators.
Academic text (2005) -
The anemone closes on the fish, clasping its prize in its fist of stinging fingers.
Fiction book (1994) -
The squishy stickiness of a giant green anemone elicited a delighted scream.
Blog text (2) -
Whatever the source of this immunity, it enables each clownfish to swim freely among its home anemone's tentacles.
Academic text (2005) -
Clownfish live symbiotically with anemones, darting in and out of the anemones' tentacles, immune to their stings.
Academic text (2003) -
The colorful anemone swayed gently with the ocean currents, its tentacles dancing in the water.
Synonyms
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A soft sea animal that looks like a flower with a ring of tentacles around its mouth
A sea animal like a flower with stinging tentacles that catches small animals
A sea animal like a flower with a soft body and stinging tentacles
A sea animal like a sea anemone with tentacles that lives on rocks or reefs
Compounds
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A soft sea animal that looks like a flower with a ring of tentacles around its mouth
A plant that lives for several years with small white flowers in North American woods
A small bright orange fish with white stripes that lives among sea anemones for protection
- Specialized
A North American forest plant with white flowers that blooms in early summer
- Specialized
A North American wildflower with tube-shaped fruit clusters like thimbles
- Specialized
A short hairy plant from North America and Siberia with blue-violet spring flowers
A small European woodland plant with single white flowers that cover the ground in spring
- Specialized
A mountain flower from western North America that blooms in spring
A European plant that lives many years with violet or white spring flowers and feathery leaves
- Specialized
A small North American wildflower with a single white flower slightly pink, found in eastern woods
A small plant that lives for several years with white, sweet-smelling, nodding flowers often found in woods and gardens
- Specialized
A small wild flower with white petals that grows on riverbanks in northern North America
- Specialized
A small plant from the Rocky Mountains with silky leaves and pale blue-white flowers
- Specialized
A plant that lives for several years with white flowers and thimble-shaped seed heads
A small plant from eastern North America with thick roots and white flowers tinged pink
- US
A small white or pink flower that grows on the forest floor in spring in eastern North America
A short hairy plant with blue-violet or lilac flowers that blooms in early spring
How Dangerous
Surface Forms
Etymology
Anemone for the sea animal has the same root anemos meaning 'wind' because sailors thought its ring of tentacles looked like a flower moved by the sea. So the name links the creature's flower-like shape and its slow, waving movement to the idea of 'wind'.