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What is an actinia?

What is an actinia? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. a sea anemone, a member of the genus Actinia.
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One of the most common among the many varieties of sea-anemones is the actinia mesembryanthemum.
The locomotive power of the anemone, or actinia, is very sluggish.
Cut off the tentacles of an actinia, and they are replaced in a short time, and the experiment may be repeated indefinitely.
Genetic materials inserted into the cactus and responsible for luminescence are GFP-like proteins taken from the Pacific actinia known as Anemonia Sulcata.
This actinia differs from those described above, in having two of the sides flattened, instead of being perfectly circular.
Of the lowest among these orders, the Actinoid Polyps, our actinia or sea-anemone is a good example.

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