Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member or individual of the genus Pyrosoma; a firebody.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any compound ascidian of the genus Pyrosoma. The pyrosomes form large hollow cylinders, sometimes two or three feet long, which swim at the surface of the sea and are very phosphorescent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
pelagic ,colonial tunicates , of the genus Pyrosoma, found in tropical waters
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Examples
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He believes the animal was a pyrosome, which is made up of hundreds to thousands of individual organisms, known as zooids.
Strange sea creature stuns NZ divers NWWHIGHAM 2018
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The hollow wormlike creature is made up of hundreds of thousands of organisms and is known as a pyrosome.
Strange sea creature stuns NZ divers NWWHIGHAM 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word pyrosome
"Each pyrosome is made up of individual zooids – small, multicellular organisms – linked together in a tunic to form a tube-like colony that is closed on one end. They are filter feeders and use cilia to draw plankton into their mucous filter."
-- "Researchers probe explosion of pyrosomes off the Northwest Coast" (https://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/news/features/pyrosomes/index.cfm)
June 23, 2017