Definition of Nectocalix
||Nec`to*ca"lyx (?), n.; pl.
Nectocalyces (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; swimming + &?;
a calyx.] (Zoöl.) (a) The swimming
bell or umbrella of a jellyfish of medusa. (b)
One of the zooids of certain Siphonophora, having somewhat the
form, and the essential structure, of the bell of a jellyfish, and
acting as a swimming organ.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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