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  • noun Plural form of siphonophore.

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Examples

  • Among other things, we look at the division of labor, including the ability to reproduce, in siphonophores.

    CreatureCast video: multicellularity explained - Boing Boing 2009

  • The squirming multiple organism that fled from Cale's approach was a descendant of the siphonophores, colonial creatures of the sea like Portuguese men o 'war.

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

  • Glowing siphonophores and flashlight fish and all.

    Starfish 1999

  • The mesopelagic fauna also includes many kinds of squid, krill, and siphonophores and ctenophores (jellyfish-like animals), as well as worms, sea butterflies, and larvae that comprise the DSL zooplankton.

    MoJo Blogs and Articles | Mother Jones 2010

  • The mesopelagic fauna also includes many kinds of squid, krill, and siphonophores and ctenophores (jellyfish-like animals), as well as worms, sea butterflies, and larvae that comprise the DSL zooplankton.

    MotherJones.com 2010

  • Jellyfish, flute-like siphonophores, glass thimble Ctenophores, and galaxies of other organic goo - alive or otherwise - streamed by the window, sparking with phosphorescence as Alvin disturbed their pelagic slumber.

    NYT > Home Page By JEFFREY MARLOW 2010

  • Reaching 10 feet (3.1 meters) in length, some siphonophores are among the largest animals in the deep sea, Monterey Peninsula College's Raskoff said in December 2009.

    National Geographic News 2010

  • These siphonophores grow to over 10 meters (33 feet) long.

    Spero News 2009

  • Some of the most common are siphonophores (colonial jellies) in the genus Apolemia.

    Spero News 2009

  • Scientific American article on transparent marine animals: siphonophores, Venus's girdles, jellyfish, and roachlike creatures whose needle-shaped guts rendered their partly digested but still-opaque contents as inconspicuous as possible.

    Slate Magazine 2009

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