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• sea bladder — noun : portuguese man of war * * * sea bladder, = Portuguese man of war. (Cf. ↑Portuguese man of war) …   Useful english dictionary

• sea horse — 1. any fish of the genus Hippocampus, of the pipefish family, having a prehensile tail, an elongated snout, and a head bent at right angles to the body. 2. a fabled marine animal with the foreparts of a horse and the hind parts of a fish. 3. a… …   Universalium

• sea wrack — noun 1. submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts • Syn: ↑eelgrass, ↑grass wrack, ↑Zostera marina • Hypernyms: ↑aquatic plant, ↑water plant, ↑hydrophyte, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• bladder kelp — noun : any of various brown algae with prominent floats: as a. : bladder wrack 1 b. : sea otter s cabbage * * * any of several species of giant kelp bearing prominent flotation bladders …   Useful english dictionary

• sea-otter's-cabbage — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ noun (plural sea otter s cabbages) : a gigantic kelp (Nereocystis lütkeana) of the northern Pacific in beds of which the sea otter makes its home called also bladder kelp …   Useful english dictionary

• sea perch — Stone Stone, n. [OE. ston, stan, AS. st[=a]n; akin to OS. & OFries. st[=e]n, D. steen, G. stein, Icel. steinn, Sw. sten, Dan. steen, Goth. stains, Russ. stiena a wall, Gr. ?, ?, a pebble. [root]167. Cf. {Steen}.] 1. Concreted earthy or mineral… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Gas bladder — and thus to stay at the current water depth, ascend, or descend without having to waste energy in swimming. cite encyclopedia | title =Fish | encyclopedia =Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia Deluxe 1999 | publisher =Microsoft | date =1999] The gas… …   Wikipedia

• swim bladder — n. a gas filled sac in the dorsal portion of the body cavity of most bony fishes, giving buoyancy to the body and used as an accessory, lunglike organ in lungfishes * * * ▪ fish anatomy also called  air bladder,         buoyancy organ possessed… …   Universalium

• North Sea — For other uses, see North Sea (disambiguation). North Sea Location Atlantic Ocean Coordinates …   Wikipedia

• Deep sea fish — Humpback anglerfish Deep sea fish is a term for any fish that lives below the photic zone of the ocean. The lanternfish is, by far, the most common deep sea fish. Other deep sea fish include the flashlight fish, cookiecutter shark, bristlemouths …   Wikipedia