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from The Century Dictionary.

  • The sea-anemones or animal-flowers proper, regarded as a family, having as type the genus Actinia, and belonging to the order Helianthoida or Malacodermata, of the class Actinozoa. It contains numerous genera and species. See Actinozoa. Also written Actinidæ.

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