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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