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Noun: nanomia
  1. Small creatures resembling pieces of fuzzy rope; each with a cluster of swimming bells serving as the head and long elastic tentacles for drawing in prey
    "Divers spotted a nanomia gracefully pulsing through the water"

Type of: siphonophore

Part of: genus Nanomia

Encyclopedia: Nanomia