noun
definition
A sea anemone (of the order Actiniaria).
Examples of actinians in a Sentence
In Actinians the epithelio-muscular cells of the endoderm are crowded with yellow spherical bodies, which are unicellular plants or Algae, living symbiotically in the tissues of the zooid.
For further details of the structure of Actinians, the reader should consult the work of 0.
As far as the anatomy of the zooid is concerned, the majority of the stony or madreporarian corals agree exactly with the soft-bodied Actinians, such as Actinia equina, both in the number and arrange 4 4 ¢ 2 4 FIG.
There are, in addition to these groups, several genera of Actinians whose mesenterial arrangement differs from the normal type.
All recent corals, as has already been said, conform so closely to the anatomy of normal Actinians that they cannot be classified apart from them, except that they are distinguished by the possession of a calcareous skeleton.
This was found in a Turbo shell, occupied also by a Pagurid, and coated with Actinians.