Velella

A Velella is the world's first seaworthy urn, and it promises to sail a loved one's remains light off into the sunset.

Let Your Sorrows Drift Away 2008

Still, they encountered surprisingly little dead marine life, except for small jellyfish, or Velella - also known as by-the-wind-sailor.

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We also spotted several Velella velella, also known as the By-the-wind sailors, which is an awesome little sea creature that has a small oval sail so it can use the winds to travel the seas.

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David Humble, a Pompano Beach entrepreneur, and Hans Barth, a Ft. Lauderdale engineer, are hoping to corner the post-cremation market by licensing their patented "Velella."

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More recently, Giuliani's former probation commissioner Raul Russi, and former deputy probation commissioner Louis Gelormino, were dismissed from part-time and full-time jobs, respectively, amid a DOI probe into the early jail release of ex-Sen. Guy Velella.

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Radiolarians to the so-called liver-cells of _Velella_; but the brothers

Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various

In his famous monograph of the Radiolarians, Haeckel suggests that they are probably secreting cells or digestive glands in the simplest form, and compares them to the liver-cells of Amphioxus, and the "liver-cells" described by Vogt in _Velella_ and _Porpita_.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various

So, too, in Velella, in sea-anemones, and in medusæ; in all cases the protoplasm and nucleus, the cellulose, starch, and chlorophyl, can be made out in the most perfectly distinct way.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various

(_Haliseris_) 45 per cent., that from diatoms about 42 per cent.; that, however, obtained from the animals containing _Philozoon_ yielded a very much lower percentage of oxygen, e.g. _Velella_ 24 per cent., white

Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various

So, too, the young gonophores of Velella, which bud off from the parent colony and start in life with a provision of

Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various