Definitions for acaleph

acaleph ac·a·leph

Spelling: [ak-uh-lef]
IPA: /ˈæk əˌlɛf/

Acaleph is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 141 anagrams from letters in acaleph (aacehlp).

Definitions for acaleph

noun

  1. (in former classifications) any coelenterate of the group Acalephae, including the sea nettles and jellyfishes.

Origin of acaleph

1700-10; New Latin acalepha Greek akalḗphē stinging nettle, sea anemone

Examples for acaleph

It exists occasionally in considerable numbers on the internal surface of some acaleph of the ocean and of the Mediterranean.

The medus are often termed the acaleph—a word which signifies nettles, and they are popularly known as sea nettles.

The color of this pretty acaleph varies from a greenish hue to green, with a faint tinge of red, or to a reddish brown.

Perhaps they too act like the venomous matter produced in the thread-capsules of the acaleph.

And throughout considerable portions of their bodies, some of the acaleph exhibit more or less distinctly this type of structure.

Word Value for acaleph
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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