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from The Century Dictionary.
- An order or some similar group of malacodermatous or soft-bodied anthozoan or zoantharian polyps, of the class Actinozoa; the sea-anemones, in a broad sense, represented by the Actiniidæ and related families. Groups more or less exactly synonymous are Actiniaria, Hexacoralla, and Malacodermata. Also
Helianthoida .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) An order of Anthozoa; the Actinaria.
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