PORTUGUESE MAN-OF-WAR


Meaning of PORTUGUESE MAN-OF-WAR in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

( plural Portuguese man-of-wars also Portuguese men-of-war )

Date: 1707

: any of a genus ( Physalia of the family Physaliidae) 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

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.