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Meaning Of Porpita
n.
A genus of bright-colored 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.