Portuguese man-of-war in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

Translations for Portuguese man-of-war in the English»Italian Dictionary

Translations for Portuguese man-of-war in the Italian»English Dictionary

Translations for Portuguese man-of-war in the English»Italian Dictionary

of [Brit ɒv, (ə)v, Am əv] PREP

I.war [Brit wɔː, Am wɔr] N

1. war (armed conflict):

II.war <forma in -ing warring, pt, pp warred> [Brit wɔː, Am wɔr] VB intr

I.man <pl men> [Brit man, Am mæn] N

1. man (adult male):

a leg, bum man inf
my little man (to a child) inf

III.man [Brit man, Am mæn] INTERJ

IV.man <forma in -ing manning, pt, pp manned> [Brit man, Am mæn] VB trans

I.Portuguese [Brit ˌpɔːtjʊˈɡiːz, ˌpɔːtʃʊˈɡiːz, Am ˌpɔrtʃəˈɡiz] ADJ

II.Portuguese [Brit ˌpɔːtjʊˈɡiːz, ˌpɔːtʃʊˈɡiːz, Am ˌpɔrtʃəˈɡiz] N

Portuguese man-of-war in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for Portuguese man-of-war in the English»Italian Dictionary

of [əv, stressed: ɒv] PREP

I.Portuguese [ˌpɔ:r·tʃə·ˈgi:z] ADJ

II.Portuguese [ˌpɔ:r·tʃə·ˈgi:z] N

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
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
A sting from a Portuguese man-of-war can cause extreme pain for several hours, and lesions and scarring could result.
outerbanksvoice.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 a siphonophore, an animal made up of a colony of organisms working together.
lancasteronline.com
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
Anyone unfamiliar with the biology of the venomous Portuguese man-of-war would likely mistake it for a jellyfish.
lancasteronline.com
However, they often travel with Portuguese man-of-war jellyfish, which carry toxins that can leave a painful sting.
ktla.com
That's what the Portuguese man-of-war was, it was a warship from hundreds of years ago.
www.nj.com
The Portuguese man-of-war typically floats on the surface of the water.
abcnews.go.com
They include a single-celled radiolarian, a Portuguese man-of-war jellyfish and an octopus.
www.standard.co.uk

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