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Portuguese man-of-war Definition


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Portuguese man-of-war
noun
    1. A genus of invertebrate animals resembling a large jellyfish that is native to tropical seas and consists of a colony of hundreds of small polyps with long stinging tentacles, clustered underneath a gas-filled bluish-purple bladder with a high crest.
Etymology: 18c.



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