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BEROE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does beroe mean?
• BEROE (noun)
The noun BEROE has 1 sense:
1. delicately iridescent thimble-shaped ctenophores
Familiarity information: BEROE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Delicately iridescent thimble-shaped ctenophores
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("beroe" is a kind of...):
comb jelly; ctenophore (biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb)
Holonyms ("beroe" is a member of...):
genus Beroe (coextensive with the class Nuda)
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