Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various brownish-yellow reef-building colonial hydrozoans of the genus Millepora having an encrusting or branching calcareous skeleton and nematocysts that release stinging barbs.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From the painful stings.]
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