actinia

IPA: æktˈɪniʌ

Examples of "actinia" in Sentences

Passiflora actinia is a passion flower of the Passifloraceae family of flowers.
Actinia Bay, from the large number of actinia which the dredge brought up there.
Dicquemarre has further elucidated the history of the actinia; and observed their manner of taking their prey by inclosing it in these beautiful rays like a net.
On the afternoon following the expedition to Bickleypool, Louis was seated, with an earthenware pan before him, coaxing an actinia with raw beef to expand her blossom, to be copied for Miss Faithfull.
He postulated as the far-back ancestor of Vertebrates, "an actinia-like, vermiform being, elongated in the direction of the mouth-slit" (p. 410, 1906), and derived the central nervous system from the circum-oral ring of this primitive form, the notochord from its stomodæum, and the coelom from the peripheral parts of the gastric cavity (p. 169, 1909).