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Members of an order of solitary coelenterate polyps, named after the terrestrial anemone flower and resembling squat columns with a cluster of stinging tentatcles around the mouth, with which they trap small fishes and invertebrates and draw them into the large interior digestive cavity; they are brightly colored, especially in tropical waters, and reproduce sexually, by budding, or by fission.
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