Meaning | A floating or swimming oceanic colony of polyps often transparent or showily colored. |
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Member of | Siphonophora, order Siphonophora | marine colonial hydrozoans |
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Narrower | Portuguese man-of-war, man-of-war, jellyfish | large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles |
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apolemia | large siphonophore of up to 50 ft long |
nanomia | small creatures resembling pieces of fuzzy rope |
praya | colonial siphonophore of up to 130 ft long |
Broader | hydrozoan, hydroid | colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant |
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Spanish | sifonóforo, sifonóforos |
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Catalan | sifonòfor |
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