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Definition of Actinoids
1. actinoid [n] - See also: actinoid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Actinoids
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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