It was full of fresh and beautiful anemones of all colors.
She bowed her face over the flowers—the freesias so sweet and spring-like, the scarlet anemones flaunting over the table.
The cowslips and anemones nodded as our boots brushed them.
The stem of a good anemone should be eight or nine inches in height, with a strong upright stalk.
There was a bowl of freesias and scarlet anemones on the table.
anemone
noun[C]
uk/əˈnem.ə.ni/us/əˈnem.ə.ni/
any of severaltypesofsmallplant,wildorgrowningardens, withred,blue, orwhiteflowers
银莲花
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Invertebrates collected have included varieties of sponge,anemone, annelid, mollusc, crustacean, asteroid, ophiuroid, echinoid, holothurioid and tunicate.
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Number one runs about naming flowers, prickly pear, anemones and cyclamens, black almond trunks: from iron wood, he says, resurrection, clouds of blossom.
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In the tree of life, already at the low evolutionary level of cnidarians, say in a medusa, or in a seaanemone, there are primitive nervous systems.
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The sea fananemoneis another biodiversity action plan species.
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That is the case because it supports a further unique species, the sea fananemoneor amphianthus dohrnii.
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It has been made clear that the flowers mainly concerned are anemones, polyanthus and narcissii which are grown in the open and have no protection.
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Therefore, where anemones and narcissi are concerned, there is a very good case, because these are flowers on which the people in that part of the country largely depend.
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However, the underwater wildlife there includes an amazing collection of 24 species of sponges, as well as cuttlefish, tompot blennies, burrowing anemones, slipper limpets and hermit crabs.
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I shall deal, first, with anemones.
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As it normally reproduces asexually by basal laceration—a process whereby small fragments of tissue tear away from it and regenerate into tiny anemones—its distribution can be patchy and changeable.
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Close relatives without calcareous hard parts suffered only minor losses, for example sea anemones, from which modern corals evolved.
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These are most common in corals, sponges and sea anemones.
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Most are unsuccessful and die or are fed upon by zooplankton and bottom dwelling predators such as anemones and other corals.
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They may harm crabs and shrimp, clams, feather dusters, anemones and similar tankmates.
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In the springtime, the oakwood floor is carpeted with a display of bluebells, wood sorrel and wood anemones.
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