Meaning & use
Anemones
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Plants of the buttercup family that produce brightly colored, cup-shaped flowers, or, in a separate sense, predatory marine invertebrates with tentacled bodies.
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The garden border was lined with white and purple anemones in early spring.
Clownfish famously live among the stinging tentacles of sea anemones.
A note on using this word
The plant and the sea creature share the same name because of their similarly flower-like appearance, though they are biologically unrelated.
Another way to use it
2. noun
Marine invertebrates with a tube-shaped body and a ring of stinging tentacles, related to jellyfish and corals.
The diver watched a clownfish dart between the tentacles of a sea anemone.
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