Marine Biology

Robert M. (United States of America)
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  1. dolphin
    any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout
  2. aquatic
    operating or living or growing in water
  3. tentacle
    a flexible appendage adapted for grasping or feeling
  4. porpoise
    any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth
  5. medusa
    one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles
  6. baleen
    a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales
  7. rorqual
    any of several baleen whales of the family Balaenopteridae having longitudinal grooves on the throat and a small pointed dorsal fin
  8. predator
    any animal that lives by preying on other animals
  9. urchin
    a poor and often mischievous city child
  10. cetacean
    large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs
  11. mollusk
    aquatic invertebrate, often with a shell
  12. spermaceti
    a white waxy substance from oil of the sperm whale
  13. opah
    large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean
  14. wrasse
    chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored
  15. ichthyology
    the branch of zoology that studies fishes
  16. bioluminescent
    (of living organisms) emitting light
  17. bathysphere
    spherical deep diving apparatus for underwater exploration
  18. anemone
    a marine polyp that resembles a flower
  19. cephalopod
    a marine animal with a head and tentacles
  20. abalone
    a large edible marine gastropod with an ear-shaped shell
  21. camouflage
    an outward semblance misrepresenting the nature of something
  22. invertebrate
    any animal lacking a backbone or notochord
  23. zooplankton
    animal constituent of plankton
  24. pinniped
    aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers
  25. echolocation
    determination of the position of objects by reflected sound
  26. periwinkle
    small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked
  27. barnacle
    marine crustacean with feathery food-catching appendages
  28. littoral
    of or relating to a coastal or shore region
  29. krill
    small shrimp-like crustaceans
  30. nautilus
    cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions
  31. symbiosis
    the relation between two interdependent species of organisms
  32. halibut
    a large, marine flatfish that is commonly used as food
  33. photosynthesis
    formation of compounds in plants aided by radiant energy
  34. crustacean
    mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body
Created on Sun Sep 27 23:26:10 EDT 2009

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