nectocalyx

Meaning

Noun

  • The swimming bell or umbrella of a jellyfish or medusa.
  • One of the zooids of certain Siphonophorae, having somewhat the form, and the essential structure, of the bell of a jellyfish, and acting as a swimming organ.

Origin

  • New Latin, from Ancient Greek.

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