Portuguese man-of-war

Etymology


From, from the resemblance of the organism’s float to a former Portuguese warship at full sail.

Noun

 * , a marine cnidarian consisting of a floating colony of hydrozoans attached to a, superficially resembling a jellyfish.

Usage notes

 * Added capitalization, loss of hyphens, and reduction of of to o or o’ are common.

Translations

 * Catalan: borm de vela, caravel·la portuguesa
 * Cebuano: salabay
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 僧帽水母
 * Danish: Portugisisk orlogsmand
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: fizalio
 * Finnish:
 * French: galère portugaise, ,
 * Galician: carabela
 * German:
 * Hungarian: portugál gálya
 * Indonesian: ubur-ubur api
 * Irish: smugairle an tseoil
 * Italian: caravella portoghese
 * Japanese: 鰹の烏帽子, カツオノエボシ
 * Korean: 작은부레관해파리, 고깔해파리
 * Malay: ubur-ubur api
 * Maori: katiaho, ihumoana
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: portugisisk krigsskip
 * Polish: aretuza, bąbelnica bąbelcowa, żeglarz portugalski
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: португа́льский вое́нный кора́блик, португа́льский кора́блик,
 * Spanish: carabela portuguesa
 * Swedish: ,
 * Welsh: chwysigen fôr