Aiptasia

Translingual

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀεί (aeí, “always”) and πετάω (petáō, “spread wings”), coined by Philip Henry Gosse in reference to the constantly extended tentacles of the anemones.[1]

Proper noun

Aiptasia f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Aiptasiidae – the triffids.

Hypernyms

References

  1. ^ 1860, Philip Henry Gosse, A history of the British Sea-Anemones and Corals: Actinologia Britannica. With coloured figures of the species and principal varietes. By Philip Henry Gosse, page 154
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