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/sˈaɪfənˌɒfɔː/
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NOUN
- a floating or swimming oceanic colony of polyps often transparent or showily colored
How To Use siphonophore In A Sentence
- Try siphonophores, gelatinous animals that live in the deep sea, whose abundance is only now being measured by scientists in Monterey Bay, but may take the prize.
- Complex, highly integrated colonies, such as siphonophores, display a well defined colony shape with determinate growth.
- This Portuguese man-of-war is a type of siphonophore often found in tropical waters. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
- It may look like a jellyfish but it's actually a siphonophore, fact fans. Home
- The siphonophores have achieved a degree of integration such that they are often regarded as solitary organisms in spite of their colonial organization.
- Chondrophorines were once classified with another unusual group of hydrozoans, the siphonophores.
- Some siphonophores may reach lengths of over a meter and migrate up to 300 meters vertically in the water column in an hour.
- Many think of it as a jellyfish, but in fact it is a siphonophore—a colony of minute individuals. SuperCooperators
- Complex, highly integrated colonies, such as siphonophores, display a well defined colony shape with determinate growth.
- Evolutionary developmental innovations important for colonial integration have evolved independently in many colonial hydrozoans, and are displayed both in Hydractinia and in more advanced forms of siphonophores.