English Explanatory Dictionary

nectocalyx

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The swimming bell or umbrella of a jellyfish or medusa.
  2. One of the zooids of certain Siphonophorae, having somewhat the form, and the essential structure, of the bell of a jellyfish, and acting as a swimming organ.

Word forms

nectocalyx nectocalyces

Etymology

From necto- + calyx.

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