Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A European sea-anemone, Anthea cereus, haviug long tentacles which cannot be retracted, whence the name.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A bright-colored European actinian (
Anemonia sulcata , syn.Anthea sulcata ); -- so called because it does not retract its tentacles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A bright-coloured
European actinian (Anemonia or Anthea sulcata).
Etymologies
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ope + -let? So called because it does not retract its tentacles.
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