sea anemone

sea anemone

English

The yellow cluster anemone (Parazoanthus axinellae)

Noun

sea anemone (plural sea anemones)

1. Any of many polyps, of the order Actiniaria, which occurs in marine and estuarine habitats, and which captures its food using tentacles

Derived terms

• starlet sea anemone

Translations

polyp

Arabic: شَقِيقَة نُعْمَانِ اَلْبَحْرِ‎ f (šaqīqa(t) nuʿmāni l-baḥri) Breton: bronn-vor ? Bulgarian: актиния (bg) f (aktinija) Chinese: Mandarin: 海葵 (zh) (hǎikuí) Czech: sasanka (cs) f Danish: søanemone c Esperanto: aktinio (eo), maranemono, marrozo Finnish: merivuokko (fi) French: anémone de mer (fr) f Galician: anemone f, apegón m, anemone de mar f German: Seeanemone (de) f Greek: θαλάσσια ανεμώνη f (thalássia anemóni) Ancient: ἀκαλήφη f (akalḗphē) Hebrew: שׁוֹשַׁנַּת יָם‎ f (shoshanát yam) Hungarian: tengerirózsa Irish: bundún leice m Japanese: イソギンチャク (isoginchaku), 磯巾着 (ja) (いそぎんちゃく, isoginchaku) Korean: 말미잘 (malmijal) Malay: buran Maori: hūmenga, kōtore, kōtoretore Navajo: tóchʼil halání Norman: con d'rotchi m (Jersey) Polish: ukwiał (pl) m Portuguese: anémona-do-mar (pt) f (Portugal), anêmona-do-mar (pt) f (Brazil) Romanian: anemonă-de-mare (ro) f, actinie (ro) f Russian: акти́ния (ru) f (aktínija) Scottish Gaelic: cìochag-thràghad f Slovene: mórska vétrnica f Spanish: anémona de mar f Swedish: havsanemon c, anemon (sv) c Tagalog: anemonang-dagat Vietnamese: hải quỳ

Further reading

• sea anemone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia