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The sea anemone. See Actinia, and Sea anemone.

Any one of numerous species of soft-bodied Anthozoa, belonging to the order Actrinaria; an actinian.

a resemblance to flowers in form and color, they are often called animal flowers and sea anemones. [See Polyp.].

Having a radiated form, like a sea anemone.

A group of Coelenterata, comprising the Anthozoa Ctenophora. The sea anemone, or actinia, is a familiar example.

An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from, the anemone, or from anemonin.

An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from some species of anemone.

See Anemone. Sandys.

ame given to certain marine animals resembling a flower, as any species of actinia or sea anemone, and other Anthozoa, hydroids, starfishes, etc. -- Animal heat (Physiol.), the heat generated in the body of a living animal, by means of which the animal is kept at nearly a uniform temperature. -- Animal spirits. See u…

The class of the Coelenterata which includes the corals and sea anemones. The three principal groups or orders are Acyonaria, Actinaria, and Madreporaria.

with, or as with, stars; to decorate with, or as with, stars; to bestud. "Bestarred with anemones." W. Black.

The anterior surface or oral area of coelenterate animals, as of sea anemones.

A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup.

A ranunculaceous plant (Anemone Hepatica) with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups.

See Pasch. Pasque flower (Bot.), a name of several plants of the genus Anemone, section Pulsatilla. They are perennial herbs with rather large purplish blossoms, which appear in early spring, or about Easter, whence the common name. Called also campana.

A genus of ranunculaceous herbs including the pasque flower. This genus is now merged in Anemone. Some species, as Anemone Pulsatilla, Anemone pratensis, and Anemone patens, are used medicinally.

ttercup is the type, and which includes also the virgin's bower, the monkshood, larkspur, anemone, meadow rue, and peony.

Fig.: Bitterness; disappointment; grief; regret. Goat's rue. See under Goat. -- Rue anemone, a pretty springtime flower (Thalictrum anemonides) common in the United States. -- Wall rue, a little fern (Asplenium Ruta-muraria) common on walls in Europe.

A sea anemone, or any related anthozoan.

The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.