Porpita
noun
Por·pi·ta
ˈpȯ(r)pətə
: a genus of small bright-colored siphonophores that float in the warmer parts of the ocean and have a large feeding zooid and a float in the center surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids and by slender dactylozooids near the margin
porpitoid adjective or noun
-)pəˌtȯid
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from Greek porpē brooch; probably akin to Greek peirein to pierce, peran to pass through