sea anemone

English

The yellow cluster anemone (Parazoanthus axinellae)

Noun

sea anemone (plural sea anemones)

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) nuʿmāni 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)
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 c
Tagalog: anemonang-dagat
Vietnamese: hải quỳ

Further reading

sea anemone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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