NANOMIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nanomia mean? 

• NANOMIA (noun)
  The noun NANOMIA has 1 sense:

1. small creatures resembling pieces of fuzzy rope; each with a cluster of swimming bells serving as the head and long elastic tentacles for drawing in prey

  Familiarity information: NANOMIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NANOMIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small creatures resembling pieces of fuzzy rope; each with a cluster of swimming bells serving as the head and long elastic tentacles for drawing in prey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("nanomia" is a kind of...):

siphonophore (a floating or swimming oceanic colony of polyps often transparent or showily colored)

Holonyms ("nanomia" is a member of...):

genus Nanomia (a genus of Siphonophora)