Wednesday Word: Siphonophore

[calzephyr]

Siphonophore - noun.

Interesting words are all around us and sometimes even in the news!

Recently a siphonophore believed to be 120 metres long, was discovered. Siphonophorae are an order of marine animals containing about 175 species and apparently come in three different general body types. You can read more about them on Wikipedia as a starting point.

By Ernst Haeckel - Kunstformen der Natur (1904), plate 59: Siphonophorae (see here, here and here), Public Domain, Link