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Porpita

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(n.) A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Porpita'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/porpita.html. 1828.
 
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