Portuguese man-of-war in British English
noun
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-warPortuguese man-of-war in American English
any of a genus (Physalia) of large, colonial, warm-sea siphonophores having a large, bladderlike sac, with a sail-like structure on top, which enables them to float on the water, andlong, dangling tentacles that have powerful stinging cells
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