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Webster 1913 Edition
Porpita
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Por′pi-ta
,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
Proper noun
Porpita f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Porpitidae – the blue buttons.