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- noun Plural form of
siphonophore .
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Examples
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Among other things, we look at the division of labor, including the ability to reproduce, in siphonophores.
CreatureCast video: multicellularity explained - Boing Boing 2009
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The squirming multiple organism that fled from Cale's approach was a descendant of the siphonophores, colonial creatures of the sea like Portuguese men o 'war.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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Glowing siphonophores and flashlight fish and all.
Starfish 1999
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The mesopelagic fauna also includes many kinds of squid, krill, and siphonophores and ctenophores (jellyfish-like animals), as well as worms, sea butterflies, and larvae that comprise the DSL zooplankton.
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The mesopelagic fauna also includes many kinds of squid, krill, and siphonophores and ctenophores (jellyfish-like animals), as well as worms, sea butterflies, and larvae that comprise the DSL zooplankton.
MotherJones.com 2010
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Jellyfish, flute-like siphonophores, glass thimble Ctenophores, and galaxies of other organic goo - alive or otherwise - streamed by the window, sparking with phosphorescence as Alvin disturbed their pelagic slumber.
NYT > Home Page By JEFFREY MARLOW 2010
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Reaching 10 feet (3.1 meters) in length, some siphonophores are among the largest animals in the deep sea, Monterey Peninsula College's Raskoff said in December 2009.
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These siphonophores grow to over 10 meters (33 feet) long.
Spero News 2009
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Some of the most common are siphonophores (colonial jellies) in the genus Apolemia.
Spero News 2009
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Scientific American article on transparent marine animals: siphonophores, Venus's girdles, jellyfish, and roachlike creatures whose needle-shaped guts rendered their partly digested but still-opaque contents as inconspicuous as possible.
Slate Magazine 2009
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