Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sea anemone.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or resembling an actinia.
- noun An animal of the family Actiniidæ or of the order Actiniidea.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun any sea anemone or related animal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology A
sea anemone (of the orderActiniaria )
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any sea anemone or related animal
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin Actīnia, genus name, from Greek aktīs, aktīn-, ray; see actino–.]
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