Coral reef: complex tropical marine ecosystem dominated by soft and stony (hard) corals, anemones and sea fans.

UNESCO: L O S S A R Y

Sea anemones, scallops, crabs, worms and sea cucumbers that hitched a ride on the same boat also will be studied.

CNN: Five fish stow away on tsunami-tossed boat

When the researchers wiped the mucous layer off and returned the fish to the anemones, they were stung straight away.

BBC: Sting relief for summer swimmers

Barely visible anemones and barnacles set up house in the nooks and cracks amidst the mussed up blanket of oyster shells.

FORBES: Oysters Are Back In New York City Waters

He came home with half a mustache, clutching a bouquet of anemones.

NEWYORKER: Creative Writing

Clownfish live happily amongst the tentacles of poisonous stinging sea anemones, a relative of the jellyfish, thanks to a protective layer of mucous.

BBC: Sting relief for summer swimmers

The Coral Sea teems with marine life: giant clams, sea anemones, schools of rainbow-coloured fish, painted tube and staghorn coral inhabit the underwater garden.

BBC: Kayaking Australia��s Whitsunday Islands

He had a special fondness for the white Japanese anemones that backed, calmly and blankly, the psychedelic annuals he tried out in his beds.

ECONOMIST: Christopher Lloyd

Between them they keep alive a tradition that goes back centuries, a tradition celebrated on the plate in the form of stuffed mussels, marinated anchovies, octopus salad, deep-fried sea anemones, prawns with cannellini beans, and linguine with spiny lobster.

BBC: Sardinia, land and sea

The best part of it, I think, was they had people dressed in some sort of costume with gravity defying fabric, and they'd drop them down 20 feet on these big ropes and it looked like anemones in the ocean.

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