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SIPHONOPHORE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A floating or swimming oceanic colony of polyps often transparent or showily colored
Classified under:
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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