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

Translations

polyp

• Arabic: شَقِيقَة نُعْمَانِ اَلْبَحْرِ f (šaqīqa(t) nuʕmāni l-baḥri)
• 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
• German: Seeanemone (de) f
• Greek: θαλάσσια ανεμώνη f (thalássia anemóni)
• 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)
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• 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: anemon (sv) c
• Tagalog: anemonang-dagat
• Vietnamese: hải quỳ

Further reading

• sea anemone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia