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Definition: Sea Anemone |
Sea AnemoneNoun1. Marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Sea Anemone |
| English words defined with "sea anemone": Actinia, actinian, actiniarian, Actiniform, Animal flower ♦ genus Actinia ♦ Sea flewer ♦ zoophyte. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sea anemone": Cnidarian Venoms. (references) |
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Sea anemones in a zoo aquarium (England)
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The sea anemone is an animal that lives in the ocean. Closely related to coral and jellyfish, the anemone is a (usually) solitary polyp with stinging cells (cnidocytes) in its tentacles. These stinging cells serve to paralyze and capture prey, which is then moved by the tentacles to the mouth for digestion inside a central cavity.
Anemones are classified as cnidarians (Phylum: Cnidaria, Class: Anthozoa, Subclass: Zoantharia). Most solitary anemones are included in the Class: Actinaria. Exceptions are the solitary, tube-dwelling cerianthids (Class: Ceriantharia). All anemones are marine; Freshwater cnidarians that resemble them (called hydras) are included in the Class: Hydrozoa.
Named after a terrestrial flower, the anemone.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sea anemone."
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 | Small sea anemone on volcanic rock off Hawaii.Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Two-banded clown fish - Amphiprion bicinctus - in sea anemone.Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | Two-banded clown fish - Amphiprion bicinctus - in sea anemone.Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | Sea Anemone.Credit: Alaska Image Library. |
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| Language | Translations for "sea anemone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | актиния (actinia, anemone), полип (polyp, polypus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | seenelke, seeanemone. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | θαλάσσιοσ πολύπουσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | attinia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 磯巾着 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いそぎ"ちゃく. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | askaid varrey, askaid (boil, sea squirt, ulcer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | easay anemoneay anêmona-do-mar (actinia). (various references) актиния (actinia, seaflower). (various references) anémona de mar (seaflower). (various references) havsanemon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Agaricus bernardii, Bacterium marismortui, Psalliota bernardii, Tripneustes ventricosus. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-e-m-n-n-o-s" | |
-2 letters: anemones. | |
-3 letters: anemone, mannose. | |
-4 letters: enemas, mannas, mensae, seaman, seamen. | |
-5 letters: aeons, amens, annas, anoas, ansae, enema, manas, manes, manna, manos, manse, mason, means, mensa, mense, mesne, meson, moans, monas, naans, names, nanas, neems, nemas, nenes, neons, nomas, nomen, nomes, nonas, nones, omasa, omens, semen, senna. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-e-m-n-n-o-s" | |
+4 letters: ferromanganese. | |
+5 letters: ferromanganeses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 61 41 6E 65 6D 6F 6E 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01100001 00100000 01000001 01101110 01100101 01101101 01101111 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e a   A n e m o n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 0061 0041 006E 0065 006D 006F 006E 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537167235807179818071 |
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