acaleph

/ak-uh-lef/US // ˈæk əˌlɛf //UK // (ˈækəˌlɛf) //

吖吖哒,苊树,吖吖哒哒

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any coelenterate of the group Acalephae, including the sea nettles and jellyfishes.

The medus are often termed the Acaleph—a word which signifies nettles, and they are popularly known as sea nettles.
It exists occasionally in considerable numbers on the internal surface of some Acaleph of the ocean and of the Mediterranean.
Perhaps they too act like the venomous matter produced in the thread-capsules of the Acaleph.
The color of this pretty Acaleph varies from a greenish hue to green, with a faint tinge of red, or to a reddish brown.
And throughout considerable portions of their bodies, some of the Acaleph exhibit more or less distinctly this type of structure.