SEA ANEMONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sea anemone mean? 

• SEA ANEMONE (noun)
  The noun SEA ANEMONE has 1 sense:

1. marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton

  Familiarity information: SEA ANEMONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEA ANEMONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

anemone; sea anemone

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)