Definition of Actinoids

1. Noun. (plural of actinoid) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Actinoids

1. actinoid [n] - See also: actinoid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Actinoids

actinobacillus infections
actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae
actinobacteria
actinobacteria group
actinobacterial
actinobacterium
actinobiology
actinochemistry
actinodermatitis
actinodin
actinodins
actinogram
actinograph
actinohematin
actinoid
actinoids (current term)
actinolite
actinolites
actinolitic
actinological
actinologist
actinologists
actinology
actinomere
actinomeres
actinometer
actinometers
actinometric
actinometrical
actinometries

Literary usage of Actinoids

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Corals and Coral Islands by James Dwight Dana (1890)
"Like the actinoids in tentacles and interior structure, except that the number of tentacles and interior septa is a multiple of four. ..."

2. Zoölogical Science: Or, Nature in Living Forms by Anna Maria (Treadwell) Redfield (1858)
"The exterior surface of the actinoids is either fleshy oír leathery, — slimy, ... The actinoids have " no blood, no vessels, no respiration proper, ..."

3. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1894)
"There are two groups of coral-making Polyps : — 1. actinoids ... A few species make calcareous corals much like those of the actinoids without any separate ..."

4. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1851)
"23), the class of Polyps is represented as composed of two orders—the Hydroids and the actinoids—while in the frontispiece, the same class numbers three ..."

5. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1851)
"23), the class of Polyps is represented as composed of two orders—the Hydroids and the actinoids—while in the frontispiece, the same class numbers three ..."

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