Portuguese man-of-war
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Portuguese man-of-warnoun/ˈpɔː.tʃʊˌɡiːz ˌmæn.ə(v)ˈwɔː/
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Physalia physalis, a marine cnidarian consisting of a floating colony of hydrozoans attached to a float, superficially resembling a jellyfish.
- Once the great streamers of a Portuguese man-of-war floated slowly by. They almost reached his head from the surface, fifteen feet away, and he remembered the whiplash of a sting from the contact of one of their tendrils that had burned for three of his days at Manatee Bay. If they caught a man across the heart they could kill him.
- However, two beaches in Tarragona in southern Catalonia were closed in July after Portuguese man o’war (Physalia physalis) were spotted in the water.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Portuguese, man-of-war.
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