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Meanings of sea anemone in English

Portuguese
anêmona
Catalan
anèmona de mar

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

anêmona
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Examples for "anemone"
Examples for "anemone"
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The anemone grows in open places by the woods or the hillside.
The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
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They open briefly, like an anemone being prodded, then curl up again.
The great lover
3
There is a sweet little flower called the wood anemone, or wind-flower.
The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
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Beulah leaned forward and plucked an anemone blossom from a rock cranny.
The Sheriff's Son
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Therefore, scorpion and sea anemone toxins offer an example of mechanistic convergent evolution.
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Usage of sea anemone in English
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Therefore, scorpion and sea anemone toxins offer an example of mechanistic convergent evolution.
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2
This person plunges underwater and moves her hair around like a sea anemone.
No one belongs here more than you: stories
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The small sea anemone Aiptasia provides a tractable laboratory model for investigating these mechanisms.
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This lodger, as you will notice in our coloured picture, is the sea anemone.
On the Seashore / Cassell's "Eyes and No Eyes" Series, Book VII
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The way that her voice opened and shut reminded him of a sea anemone.
Balloons
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The tiny sleeping fingers uncurled and, like some little sea anemone, clutched round it.
Saint's Progress
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It's more like a gaudy sea anemone or a furry puffer fish than a fruit.
The windup girl
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There"-pointingit out-"isthe most common of the British species of sea anemone.
Elsie at the World's Fair
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It almost looks like a sea anemone.
The Irish Times
10
Abruptly, you metamorphose from a capable person into an immobile sea anemone, your useless tentacles waving wildly.
Wired
11
At the ends of their hands were not fingers but fronds, not unlike those of a sea anemone.
The call of kerberos: twilight of kerberos
12
The gelatinous umbrella-shaped free swimming form of marine invertebrate related to the coral polyp and the sea anemone?
The Common Man
13
Charbonneau had a wide, friendly face and prickly gray hair that always reminded me of a sea anemone.
Temperance Brennan 01 - Déjà Dead
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I leaned forward to peer at the baby's plump face, his pink mouth pursing like a sea anemone.
The Angel Stone
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One of the transport cages tumbled by, its severed cables whipping like the tentacles of an agitated sea anemone.
The Hyperion Cantos
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Hence, the present work was focused on the proteomic analyses of whole-body extract from the unexplored sea anemone Bunodactis verrucosa.
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