| NOUN | animal | siphonophore | a floating or swimming oceanic colony of polyps often transparent or showily colored |
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| 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 |
| Narrower | Portuguese man-of-war, man-of-war, jellyfish | large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles |
| 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 |
| Spanish | sifonóforo, sifonóforos | |
| Catalan | sifonòfor | |
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