释义 |
obe·lia \ōˈbēlyə, -lēə\ noun Etymology: New Latin, probably from Greek obelias, a cake, from obelos spit (rod used in baking) 1. capitalized : a genus of small delicate colonial hydroids having a medusa that lacks a velum and being widely distributed in temperate seas and a common colonial hydrozoan about wharves and pilings 2. -s : a member of the genus Obelia; broadly : any colonial hydroid of similar form |