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velella (medicine)


velella
<zoology> Any species of oceanic Siphonophora belonging to the genus Velella.

These creatures are brilliantly coloured and float at the surface of the sea. They have an oblong, disklike body, supported by a thin chitinous plate, from which rises a thin diagonal crest which acts as a sail. The feeding and reproductive zooids hang down from the under side of the disk.

Origin: NL, dim. From L. Velum a veil, a sail.

Source: Websters Dictionary


whoop (iou)



whoop verb. [hu:p, wu:p] Also hoop [hu:p]. LME.
[Prob. imit.: cf. Old & mod. French houper (from houp interjection), prec.]
verb intrans. Utter a whoop or series of whoops; shout out in excitement, exultation, defiance, etc. LME.
A. Haley Whooping out loud with the pleasure of feeling so wildly free.
b. verb trans. Utter with a whoop; express by whooping; (foll. by adverb or adverbial phr.) bring or urge by or with whooping. LME.
T. McGuane The cows had mouths of long grass...Lucien whooped them out onto hard ground.
c. verb trans. Shout at. rare. L17.
d. Foll. by up: arouse enthusiasm for; encourage; praise. colloq. (chiefly US). L19.
whoop it up colloq. (a) engage in revelry; (b) US create a stir.
verb intrans. Of an owl: hoot. M17.
b. Express by hooting; hoot at. L17.
verb intrans. Make the sound characteristic of whooping-cough. E19.
Comb.: whoop-de-do N. Amer. colloq. (a) a fuss, a commotion; (b) a very bumpy stretch of road to ride a motorcycle along; whoop-up (colloq., chiefly N. Amer.) a noisy celebration or party; revelry.