The Collaborative International Dictionary
Actinia \Ac*tin"i*a\, n.; pl. L. Actini[ae], E. Actinias. [Latinized fr. Gr. ?, ?, ray.] (Zo["o]l.)
An animal of the class Anthozoa, and family Actinid[ae]. From a resemblance to flowers in form and color, they are often called animal flowers and sea anemones. [See Polyp.].
A genus in the family Actinid[ae].
Wiktionary
n. (sea anemone English)
Usage examples of "sea anemones".
There were fluttering sea anemones as well, huge irregular pink ones quite unlike the small door-stop sea anemones of California.
Cupped in Ann's hands, half-encased in a glob of gelatinous blood, Ghost saw a pale shape no larger than a red bean: the dot of an eye, the veined bubble of a skull, tiny fingers like the petals of sea anemones: He looked away.
Barnacles clung to the broken timbers and sea anemones clustered in small groups.
The patina of marine growth, made up of millions of sea anemones, stretched off into the dimness beyond the reach of the light.
Flowerlike sea anemones drew in mock petals when she reached to pluck them from the shallow pools left stranded by the receding tide.
No bigger than the size of a mouse's paw, a swallow fashioned from metal, its outspread wings partially obscured by the rocks which held it captive amid the brightly hued sea anemones and corals on the bed of the pool.
It was covered with white gravel, and bordered by corals and sea anemones.
Presently they settled to the ocean floor, amid a profusion of underwater vegetation, mollusks, sea anemones, and sponges.