Acalephae
See also: acalephae
Translingual
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀκαλήφη (akalḗphē, “stinging nettle”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Acalephae
- (obsolete) A taxonomic group within the phylum Coelenterata – including the medusae or jellyfishes, and hydroids; so called from the stinging power they possess.
Synonyms
[edit]- See
Sea nettle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Acalepha
Further reading
[edit]- “acalephae”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “Acalephae”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
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