Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various transparent, often subtly colored marine hydrozoans of the order Siphonophora, consisting of a delicate floating or swimming colony of specialized zooids and including the Portuguese man-of-war.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
siphonophoran .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the Siphonophora.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology Any of various
transparent marine hydrozoans , of the orderSiphonophora , that float or swim as colonies ofpolyps .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a floating or swimming oceanic colony of polyps often transparent or showily colored
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Many think of it as a jellyfish, but in fact it is a siphonophore—a colony of minute individuals.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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The manefish is thought to feed on, or take food from, a siphonophore, which resembles a jellyfish, and which has tentacles that could damage the fish.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Manefish are thought to steal food from or feed on a jellyfish-like animal called a siphonophore.
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Manefish are thought to steal food from or feed on a jellyfish-like animal called a siphonophore.
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It may look like a jellyfish but it's actually a siphonophore, fact fans.
Home 2010
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The manefish is thought to feed on, or take food from, a siphonophore, which resembles a jellyfish, and which has tentacles that could damage the fish.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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This Portuguese man-of-war is a type of siphonophore often found in tropical waters.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The manefish is thought to feed on, or take food from, a siphonophore, which resembles a jellyfish, and which has tentacles that could damage the fish.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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This Portuguese man-of-war is a type of siphonophore often found in tropical waters.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Manefish are thought to steal food from or feed on a jellyfish-like animal called a siphonophore.
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They are also found in many siphonophores– intricate jellies that the 19th-century German naturalist Ernst Haeckel identified and illustrated.
In the ocean’s twilight zone, a fish that could feed the world – or destroy it Helen Scales 2022
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