Por·tu·guese man-of-war
n, pl Portuguese man-of-wars also Portuguese men-of-war : any siphonophore of the genus Physalia including large tropical and subtropical oceanic forms having a crested bladderlike float which bears a colony comprised of three types of zooids on the lower surface with one of the three having stinging tentacles .
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