Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the Acalephæ or sea-nettles. Also spelled
acalephe .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the Acalephæ.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated A member of the former
Acalephae family , now a part of theCnidaria phylum .
Etymologies
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Borrowing from Latin acaleph, from Ancient Greek ἀκαλήφη (akalephe, "stinging nettle").
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