sea anemone

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsanemone

   Broaderanthozoan

   Narroweractinia

   Part ofActiniaria

Questions about sea anemone

What does sea anemone mean?

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

What is another word for sea anemone?

Close synonyms include anemone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sea anemone a common word?

sea anemone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.