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siphonopho·ra

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Siphonophora, order Siphonophoranoun

    marine colonial hydrozoans

Webster Dictionary

  1. Siphonophora

    an order of pelagic Hydrozoa including species which form complex free-swimming communities composed of numerous zooids of various kinds, some of which act as floats or as swimming organs, others as feeding or nutritive zooids, and others as reproductive zooids. See Illust. under Physallia, and Porpita

  2. Etymology: [NL., fr. Gr. a siphon + fe`rein to bear.]

Entomology

  1. Siphonophora

    = Coccinellidae; the term is preoccupied in the Coelenterates.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Siphonophora in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Siphonophora in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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