noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sea anemone
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
sea
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Why the sea anemone stays there and whether it gains anything from this relationship is not known.
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These rocks also stirred with novel species of eyeless shrimp, white crabs, translucent sea anemones and large, pink fish.
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A hermit crab carrying a sea anemone around on its shell.
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These and certain sea anemones often leave a mucous trail that, upon dissolving in water, gives off a characteristic odor.
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I have reached for slimy sea anemones that slipped out of my hand like soap.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Above: These colonial anemones are each brandishing hundreds of stinging cells.
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Creatures like sea stars and anemones attach themselves firmly to rocks.
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Damaged anemones are open to all sorts of bacterial diseases which can be fatal.
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Shrimp, anemones, and brittle stars dominate, but their numbers are few, their biomass small.
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Specimens of this anemone have been seen with as many two dozen clown anemonefish nestled among their tentacles.
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The crab effectively parasitises these protective devices for its own ends by placing the anemone on its shell.
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There were anemones in a bud vase on the table.
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Why the sea anemone stays there and whether it gains anything from this relationship is not known.