siphonophore

Other forms: siphonophores

Definitions of siphonophore

1. noun

   a floating or swimming oceanic colony of polyps often transparent or showily colored
   types:

   nanomia

   small creatures resembling pieces of fuzzy rope; each with a cluster of swimming bells serving as the head and long elastic tentacles for drawing in prey

   Portuguese man-of-war, jellyfish, man-of-war

   large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles

   praya

   colonial siphonophore of up to 130 ft long

   apolemia

   large siphonophore of up to 50 ft long

   type of:

   hydroid, hydrozoan

   colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant