portuguese man-of-war in English

noun
1
a floating colonial coelenterate with a number of polyps and a conspicuous float. It occurs chiefly in warm seas, and bears long tentacles that can inflict painful stings.
Among their more unusual behavior, the octopuses employ a unique defense mechanism by tearing off the tentacles of passing Portuguese man-of-war jellyfish.

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1. The Coelenterates are mainly marine organisms and are best known as jellyfish or medusae, sea anemones, corals, the Portuguese man-of-war, small polypoid forms called hydroids, and the …

2. ‘Surfers more often encounter free-floating Coelenterates such as the true jellyfish, Portuguese man-of-war, and box jellyfish.’ ‘Throughout the wreck dive we have been shadowed by thousands of Coelenterates, drifting by like a slow hail of souls.’

3. ‘Surfers more often encounter free-floating Coelenterates such as the true jellyfish, Portuguese man-of-war, and box jellyfish.’ ‘Throughout the wreck dive we have been shadowed by thousands of Coelenterates, drifting by like a slow hail of souls.’