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Webster 1913 Edition


Porpita


Por′pi-ta

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Noun.
[NL., from Gr. [GREEK] brooch.]
(Zool.)
A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst.

Definition 2024


Porpita

Porpita

See also: porpita

Translingual

Porpita pacifica

Wikispecies

Proper noun

Porpita f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Porpitidae – the blue buttons.

porpita

porpita

See also: Porpita

English

Noun

porpita (plural porpitas)

  1. (zoology) A marine organism, Porpita porpita, the blue button.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πόρπη (pórpē, brooch)

Noun

porpita

  1. (New Latin) brooch