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Pleurobrachia

noun

sea gooseberries

• Syn: ↑genus Pleurobrachia

• Hypernyms: ↑ctenophore genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Ctenophora, ↑phylum Ctenophora

• Member Meronyms: ↑sea gooseberry

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\\ˌplu̇rəˈbrākēə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from pleur- + brachia

: a genus (the type of the family Pleurobrachiidae) of globose or ovoid relatively firm-bodied ctenophores

Useful english dictionary. 2012.