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Portuguese man-of-war
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Portuguese man-of-war
n.
A complex colonial siphonophore of the genus Physalia, of warm seas, having a bluish bladderlike float with a broad saillike crest from which hang numerous long stinging tentacles.
Portuguese man-of-war
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of several large complex colonial hydrozoans of the genus Physalia, esp P. physalis, having an aerial float and long stinging tentacles: order Siphonophora Sometimes shortened to man-of-war
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Noun1.Portuguese man-of-war - large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentaclesPortuguese man-of-war - large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles
jellyfish, man-of-war
siphonophore - a floating or swimming oceanic colony of polyps often transparent or showily colored
genus Physalia, Physalia - Portuguese man-of-war
Translations
Portuguese man-of-war
n → Staats- or Röhrenqualle f, → Portugiesische Galeere f
Portuguese man-of-war [ˌpɔːtjʊˈgiːzˌmænəvˈwɔːʳ] n (jellyfish) → fisalia, caravella portoghese
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CAPTION(S): Sixth formers Rachel Carn and Emma Smith from Birmingham with one of the 10 Portuguese Men-of-War they found on Rhosneigr beach, Anglesey
Men-of-war are on our shores; Scores of venomous creatures washed up by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
When you have achieved, you think, the perfect passive state, come and see the most barren line of shore and watch the Portuguese men-of-war, flung just beyond the tide's receding reach, beached translucent kidneys, trimmed in amethyst, marooned, it seems, subject to gull's prick, wind's slap, and the sun's up-sucking rays, who have not even brain to think of green back wash or cells enough to hope a rescue from the lapping wave.
Advice to a novice by McEvily, Mary Ellen Foster / Cross Currents
 
 
 
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