How to Use siphonophore in a Sentence

siphonophore

noun

• In addition to the huge siphonophore, scientists aboard the Falkor identified up to 30 new species.
  — Devi Lockwood, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2020
• And a siphonophore makes waves in the Indian Ocean for strongly resembling Silly String.
  — CNN, 7 Apr. 2020
• Besides the gigantic siphonophore, the explorers also found large groups of glass sponges and other species.
  — Fox News, 14 Apr. 2020
• But the sting of the Portuguese man o’war—which is technically a siphonophore and not a jellyfish—is particularly painful.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 4 May 2017
• But the sting of the Portuguese man o’war—which is technically a siphonophore and not a jellyfish—is particularly painful.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 4 May 2017
• The Portuguese man-of-war is a siphonophore, a species closely related to jellyfish, according to the National Ocean Service.
  — Megan Marples, CNN, 8 Apr. 2022
• Each siphonophore is a colony of individual zooids, clusters of cells that clone themselves thousands of times to produce an extended, stringlike body.
  — Devi Lockwood, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2020
• Officials said anyone who spots the creature – which is a siphonophore, not a jellyfish, according to the publication – should report the sighting.
  — Madeline Farber, Fox News, 10 Aug. 2018
• Scientists have discovered a new creature called a siphonophore (trying saying that five times fast) lurking in the Indian Ocean, with an outer ring measuring 154 feet in length.
  — Alex Chaet, CNN, 10 Apr. 2020
• Check out this beautiful *giant* siphonophore Apolemia recorded on #NingalooCanyons expedition.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2020
• Ernst Haeckel’s intention was to make the natural forms of elusive organisms accessible to artists, and supply them with a new visual vocabulary of protists, mollusks, trilobites, siphonophores, fungi, and echinoderms.
  — The New York Review of Books, 16 Dec. 2018
• The man o’ war, while closely resembling a jellyfish, is in fact a siphonophore, which means it is comprised of four separate organisms that each perform a specific task, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2021
• Occasionally, a larger animal appeared—a pyrosome resembling a glowing cucumber, or a ribbonlike siphonophore with wispy stinging tentacles.
  — Stephanie Stone, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Sep. 2021

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