Word Meanings - ACALEPHAE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A group of Coelenterata, including the Medusae or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles.

• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Possessed
  of Possess
• Possessing
  of Possess
• Stinging
  of Sting
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Callous
  Hardened; indurated.
• Possess
  To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one's own keeping; to have and to hold.
• Stingaree
  Any sting ray. See under 6th Ray.
• Calliopsis
  A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.
• Possession
  The act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own.
• Stingbull
  The European greater weever fish (Trachinus draco), which is capable of inflicting severe wounds with the spinous rays of its dorsal fin. See Weever.
• Calling
  of Call
• Callipash
  See Calipash.
• Possessionary
  Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession.
• Stinger
  One who, or that which, stings.

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