man-of-war <pl men-of-war> [ˌmænəvˈwɔ:ʳ, Am -wɔ:r] N, man-of-war bird N ZOOL
man-of-war <pl men-of-war> [ˌmænəvˈwɔ:ʳ, Am -wɔ:r] N, man-o'-war <pl men-o'-war> [ˌmænəˈwɔ:ʳ, Am -wɔ:r] N HISTORY
Por·tu·guese man-of-ˈwar N ZOOL
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That's what the Portuguese man-of-war was, it was a warship from hundreds of years ago.
www.nj.com I don't want to be the Portuguese man-of-war at the beach party, but the top eight recordings of unknown millions are of absolutely no interest to me.
www.telegraph.co.uk The Portuguese man-of-war is not actually a jellyfish, but a siphonophore -- an animal made up of a colony of organisms working together and dependent on each other.
outerbanksvoice.com The Portuguese man-of-war, a strange-looking jellyfish-type creature, is a bizarre floating colony of lots of tiny marine organisms living together and behaving collectively as one animal.
www.rt.com Anyone unfamiliar with the biology of the venomous Portuguese man-of-war would likely mistake it for a jellyfish.
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www.seemotive.de This British man-of-war fought against pirates in the Malakka Strait.
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Dies britische Kriegsschiff bekämpfte die Piraten in der Malakkastrasse.
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www.seemotive.de After the Battle of Lepanto the galley s role as man-of-war lost its importance.
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Nach der Schlacht von Lepanto nahm die Bedeutung der Galeeren als Kriegsschiffe ab.