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Words related to man-of-war

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  • man-of-war fish

    a small, tropical fish, Nomeus gronovii, that lives among the tentacles of the Portuguese man-of-war.

  • bluebottle

    A bluebottle is a large fly with a shiny dark-blue body.

  • galatea

    a sea nymph who was the lover of Acis.

  • hydrozoan

    any freshwater or marine coelenterate of the class Hydrozoa, including free-swimming or attached types, as the hydra, in which one developmental stage, either the polyp or medusa, is absent, and colonial types, as the Portuguese man-of-war, in which both medusa and polyp stages are present in a single colony.

  • portuguese man-of-war

    any of several large, oceanic hydrozoans of the genus Physalia, having a large, bladderlike structure with a saillike crest by which they are buoyed up and from which dangle tentacles with stinging cells.

  • serapis

    Also, Sarapis. a Greco-Egyptian deity combining the attributes of Osiris and Apis, identified in Egypt with the Ptolemies: later worshiped throughout the Greek and Roman empires.
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