PORTUGUESE MAN-OF-WAR


Meaning of PORTUGUESE MAN-OF-WAR in English

[Portuguese man-of-war] n, pl Portuguese man-of-wars also Portuguese men-of-war (1707): any of a genus (Physalia) of large tropical and subtropical pelagic siphonophores having a crested bladderlike float which bears the colony comprised of three types of zooids on the lower surface with one of the three having nematocyst-equipped tentacles

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