See Also: porpita(medicine)

passeggiata (iou) and porpita (medicine)


passeggiata (iou)



passeggiata noun. . M20.
[Italian.]
A stroll, a promenade.

porpita (medicine)


porpita
<zoology> A genus of bright-coloured Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst.

Origin: NL, from Gr. Brooch.

Source: Websters Dictionary