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anemone

[uh-nem-uh-nee] / əˈnɛm əˌni /
NOUN
polyp
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Sea anemone isn’t braised and paired with glass noodles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2025

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

So, even if the anemone became smaller after an injury, it maintained the same shape.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 29, 2024

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

He saw Hooper's legs, waving like the fronds of a sea anemone.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill

"Humans and sea anemones both need protection from viruses, but this work shows that evolution can organize those defenses in fundamentally different ways," Moran added.

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

The florist-by-trade gestures behind her to hundreds of flowers contained in buckets — blue thistles, ivory anemones and calla lilies painted silver — all twisted and unfurling into the air.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 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

From that distance, the figure is serpent-y, with wavy anemones on its top half.

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


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