SIPHONOPHORE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does siphonophore mean? 

• SIPHONOPHORE (noun)
  The noun SIPHONOPHORE has 1 sense:

1. a floating or swimming oceanic colony of polyps often transparent or showily colored

  Familiarity information: SIPHONOPHORE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIPHONOPHORE (noun)

Meaning:

A floating or swimming oceanic colony of polyps often transparent or showily colored

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("siphonophore" is a kind of...):

hydroid; hydrozoan (colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "siphonophore"):

nanomia (small creatures resembling pieces of fuzzy rope; each with a cluster of swimming bells serving as the head and long elastic tentacles for drawing in prey)

jellyfish; man-of-war; Portuguese man-of-war (large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles)

praya (colonial siphonophore of up to 130 ft long)

apolemia (large siphonophore of up to 50 ft long)

Holonyms ("siphonophore" is a member of...):

order Siphonophora; Siphonophora (marine colonial hydrozoans)