actiniae

In the midst of this inextricable mass of plants and sea weed, I noticed some charming pink halcyons and actiniae, with their long tentacles trailing after them, and medusae, green, red, and blue.

Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

In studying the actiniae I have made a striking discovery, and I should be glad if you would communicate it to the Academy in advance of the illustrated paper on the same subject, which I hope soon to send you.

Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

Great sea slugs crawled about on the bottom with gigantic starfish, and actiniae of vivid colours spread their tentacled blossoms.

Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track George Manville Fenn 1870

In the midst of this inextricable mass of plants and sea weed, I noticed some charming pink halcyons and actiniae, with their long tentacles trailing after them, and medusae, green, red, and blue.

Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English Jules Verne 1866

It was thickly covered with a mass of corals, actiniae, and other productions of the ocean, of vast dimensions, of every possible form, and of the most brilliant colours.

In the Eastern Seas William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

In studying the actiniae I have made a striking discovery, and I should be glad if you would communicate it to the Academy in advance of the illustrated paper on the same subject, which I hope soon to send you.

Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence Louis Agassiz 1840