a1863 W. D. Stuart (1865) 169 I found many beautiful plumose anemones, their delicate thread-like tentacles waving to and fro with the slightest ripple.
1935 Apr. 97/2 Of anemones we have nothing quite so fine as the Plumose Anemone so well shown in European aquaria.
1996 16 Feb. 4/4 The insucking plumose anemone..first devours the shrimp and then takes Eustace's finger between its ‘cold lips’.