A sea anemone is a flower-like sea creature with stinging tentacles. A sea anemone in the pool.
It is an animal and a close relative of the jellyfish and the coral. A sea anemone can live for decades and some have been kept for over eighty years.
1nounsea anemoneA flower-like sea creature with stinging tentacles.
“Every rock pool had a sea anemone closed up like a blob of jelly.”
sea anemone is a creature.
Sea plus anemone, the flower, from Greek anemos, wind.
From sea + anemone.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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