actinian | (noun) any sea anemone or related animal | Synonyms: actinia, actiniarian |
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banian | (noun) a loose fitting jacket; originally worn in India | Synonyms: banyan |
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(noun) East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks | Synonyms: banian tree, banyan, banyan tree, East Indian fig tree, Ficus bengalensis, Indian banyan |
chelonian | (noun) a reptile of the order Chelonia | Synonyms: chelonian reptile |
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gorgonian | (noun) corals having a horny or calcareous branching skeleton | Synonyms: gorgonian coral |
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peridinian | (noun) flagellate with a thick test composed of plates | - |
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platyrrhinian | (noun) hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails | Synonyms: New World monkey, platyrrhine |
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sarcodinian | (noun) protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopods | Synonyms: sarcodine |
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sirenian | (noun) any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs | Synonyms: sea cow, sirenian mammal |
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