pneumatophore in English
noun
1
the gas-filled float of some colonial coelenterates, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
Some but not all float by means of a large pneumatophore , or gas bag.
2
(in mangroves and other swamp plants) an aerial root specialized for gaseous exchange.
No understory or ground level vegetation was present except for the pneumatophores of the mangrove trees.
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1. Bluebottles have a gas filled air sac known as a pneumatophore which is muscular that is bilaterally symmetrical