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nectocalyx.

The swimming bell or umbrella of a jellyfish or medusa.

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Meaning & usage

noun
  1. The swimming bell or umbrella of a jellyfish or medusa.

  2. One of the zooids of certain Siphonophorae, having somewhat the form, and the essential structure, of the bell of a jellyfish, and acting as a swimming organ.

Where this word comes from

From necto- + calyx.

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