NANOMIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small creatures resembling pieces of fuzzy rope; each with a cluster of swimming bells serving as the head and long elastic tentacles for drawing in prey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("nanomia" is a kind of...):

siphonophore (a floating or swimming oceanic colony of polyps often transparent or showily colored)

Holonyms ("nanomia" is a member of...):

genus Nanomia (a genus of Siphonophora)

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