The popular name of certain radiate marine animals of the class Acalephæ, having the property of stinging when touched. †Formerly applied also to…

Formerly: †a kind of sea anemone (not identified) (obsolete). Later: (English regional) a kind of jellyfish. Cf. sea-nettle, n. rare.

A sea-anemone. Obsolete rare.

Any of numerous marine anthozoans of the order Actiniaria, occurring as sedentary polyps with a columnar body bearing a ring of stinging tentacles…

(see anemone, n. 2).

a sea-anemone.

†(a) an Actinia or sea-anemone; (b) a large sea-cucumber.

A sea anemone; spec. one of the genus Actinia. Also (in form Actinia): the genus itself.

a kind of sea-anemone.

a sea-anemone of the genus Actinia.

a sea-anemone.

Some kind of sea-anemone. Obsolete.

a kind of sea-anemone.

a variety of sea-anemone.

applied to a sea-anemone.

A flower growing in or by the sea. Also, an actinia or sea-anemone. Also attributive.

Used as the popular or trivial name of various species of animals, as of a monkey (Chrysothrix sciurea), a sea-anemone, and as the fancy name of…

A cnidarian of the order Actiniaria; a sea anemone. Cf. actinian, n.

A member of the order Actiniaria; an actiniarian, a sea anemone.