Ăn'i-mal-flow'er, n.

n. (Zoöl.) (a.) Any species of the genus Actinia. (b.) Any species of the class Polyps. (c.) A species of the other classes of Radiata, as the star-fish, crinoids, medusa. (d.) One of the sponges, which are Protozoa, not Radiates. Dana.