Definition of actinal. Meaning of actinal. Synonyms of actinal

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Definition of actinal

Actinal
Actinal Ac"ti*nal, a. [Gr. ?, ?, ray.] (Zo["o]l.) Pertaining to the part of a radiate animal which contains the mouth. --L. Agassiz.

Meaning of actinal from wikipedia

- an article on "actinal", but its sister project Wiktionary does: Read the Wiktionary entry "actinal" You can also: Search for Actinal in Wikipedia to...
- the surface of the animal's body, in pits on the abactinal, marginal, or actinal surface, and/or within the adambulacral plate adjacent to the tube foot...
- tropical Atlantic. Sthenaster emmae has five arms, a triangular outline, actinal intermediate plates, abactinal plates, ranges from 42mm - 45mm wide, and...
- Brissus (Allobrissus) ag****izii. A: denuded test, abactinal view; B: test, actinal view; C: specimen with radioles, abactinal view; D: denuded test, side...
- overlapping ossicles called the carinals, abactinals, marginals (only one row), actinals (several rows), adambulacral, and ambulacrals. These ossicles can have...
- be purplish or grayish-black, with deep yellow or whitish spines. The actinal surface is whitish, yellowish, or brownish, with pedicels much darker than...
- a single series of marginals, a fused ring of disc plates, the lack of actinal plates, a spool-like ambulacral column, reduced abactinal plates, and crossed...
- are characterized by having four to seven rays that are narrowly flat actinally (underneath), sub-cylindrical and tapering with the marginal edge weakly...
- of this kind have mostly digitiform abactinal spinelets. They also have actinal interradial spines which are predominantly subsacciform. Though not much...