Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Moving by means of a vesicular float or buoy; of or pertaining to the Physograda.
  • noun A member of the Physograda.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun zoology Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek a bellows + Latin gradi to walk, go.

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