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# siphonophore

noun (a siphonophore, siphonophores)

«siphonophore» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A siphonophore is a strange sea animal, related to jellyfish, that is really a colony of many tiny animal parts joined together and working as one body. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/siphonophore/#m1)
2. Each part has its own job: some swim, some catch food, some digest it, some make young. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/siphonophore/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science lessons on ocean life it is an amazing example of teamwork in nature. The Portuguese man o' war is a famous siphonophore with stinging tentacles; some deep-sea siphonophores are longer than a blue whale, though very thin. Phrases: «a giant siphonophore», «colony of zooids».

### Examples

- A siphonophore looks like one animal but is made of many tiny parts. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/siphonophore/#x1)
- The Portuguese man o' war is a siphonophore, not a true jellyfish. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/siphonophore/#x2)
- Scientists filmed a giant siphonophore deep under the sea off Australia. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/siphonophore/#x3)
- Some siphonophores are longer than a blue whale. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/siphonophore/#x4)
- Do not touch a man o' war on the beach; it can still sting. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/siphonophore/#x5)
- In a siphonophore, some parts swim and some parts catch food. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/siphonophore/#x6)
- Many siphonophores glow in the dark. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/siphonophore/#x7)

### Note

Countable. Said «SY-fon-oh-for» or «sy-FON-oh-for». The tiny parts are called zooids. Not every sea jelly is a siphonophore.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «siphonophore» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/siphonophore/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«siphonophore» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/siphonophore.html) on Mova free.