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SIPHONOPHORE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A floating or swimming oceanic colony of polyps often transparent or showily colored

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Nouns denoting animals

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

hydroid; hydrozoan (colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "siphonophore"):

nanomia (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)

jellyfish; man-of-war; Portuguese man-of-war (large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles)

praya (colonial siphonophore of up to 130 ft long)

apolemia (large siphonophore of up to 50 ft long)

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

order Siphonophora; Siphonophora (marine colonial hydrozoans)

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