Crossword-Solution: PHYSALIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Physalia | n. | A genus of large oceanic Siphonophora which includes the Portuguese man-of-war. |
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| bluebottle | 6 answers |
| AUSTRALIAN marine animal(s), dangerous | 49 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with PHYSALIA (5)
Besides this means of defence, an acrid secretion, which is spread over its body, causes a sharp, stinging sensation, similar to that produced by the Physalia, or Portuguese man-of-war.
The sensation was as bad as that from a nettle, but more like that caused by the Physalia or Portuguese man-of-war.
The two papers in question, as appears from the briefest notice in the "Proceedings of the Linnean Society," ascribing them to William (!) Huxley, were read in 1849:--] In my last letter I think I mentioned to you that I had worked out and sent home to the President of the Linnean Society, through Captain Stanley, an account of Physalia, or Portuguese man-of-war as it is called, an animal whose structure and affinities had never been worked out.
Many of the smaller marine animals are protected by their almost invisible transparency, while those that are most brightly coloured will be often found to have a special protection, either in stinging tentacles like Physalia, or in a hard calcareous crust, as in the star fishes.
The common jelly-fish (_Medusa_) and the Portuguese man-of-war (_Physalia_) are the best-known examples.