| 单词 | animal flower |
| 释义 | > as lemmasanimal flower animal flower n. now rare a sedentary marine invertebrate that resembles a flower in form and colour; esp. a sea anemone. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > member of coral1579 animal flower1750 sea-coralline1753 coralline1779 flower-animals1840 corallum1846 anthozoon1849 actinozoon1864 anthozoan1865 actinozoan1876 1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados ix. 296 Among these also are a great Number of Animal Flowers of the same Species with the yellow large ones. 1768 J. Ellis in Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 428 The Actinia, called by old authors..Urtica marina, from its supposed property of stinging, is now more properly called by some late English authors the Animal flower. 1855 P. H. Gosse Man. Marine Zool. I. 16 The extensive group known popularly as Sea-anemones or Animal-flowers, from the blossom-like appearance of their expanded disks and tentacles, and their gorgeous colours. 1964 Rotarian June 29/1 Beneath and around him in the bay of Guaymas, Mexico, is the strange and beautiful world of undersea life.., of brilliant submarine gardens of waving animal ‘flowers’. 2009 Fort McMurray (Alberta) Today (Nexis) 17 Apr. b7 I have been to the stunning north coast [of Barbados], watched the awe-inspiring Atlantic crash and foam on the steep cliffs and been through the animal flower caves. < as lemmas |
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