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anemone

[uh-nem-uh-nee] / əˈnɛm əˌni /
NOUN
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He receives live sea anemone, which he presents tableside to guests so they can better understand what they are eating.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2025

“Sea anemone is very textural, and requires a lot of preparation,” Hudda explains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2025

Rik Korswagen's team at the Hubrecht Institute in the Netherlands helped implement spatial transcriptomics in the sea anemone.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 29, 2024

The cherished coastal activity is a great opportunity to learn about the Puget Sound ecosystem, look closely at alien sea anemone, the egg cases of moon snail and other ocean oddities.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

She finds barnacles, an anemone as soft as silk; she sets her fingers as lightly as she can on a Nassarius.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

To investigate how old this defense system might be, the researchers studied sea anemones.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 30, 2026

Similar to Portuguese man o' war, by-the-wind sailors are colonies of animals related to sea anemones and corals, and they possess stinging cells.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

Inside the egg, a surprise awaits: a bouquet of flowers made of white quartz wood anemones, each flower with gold wire stem and stamens.

From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025

It uses a cavernous hood to trap crustaceans to eat — a feeding strategy also used by anemones and some jellies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024

Now, she sees that the anemones are messy curls and the creature is Luke Messenger.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti




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