Definitions for Velella

Velella ve·lel·la

Spelling: [vuh-lel-uh]
IPA: /vəˈlɛl ə/

Velella is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in Velella (aeelllv).

Definitions for Velella

noun

  1. a floating colony of hydrozoans of the genus Velella, having a vertical crest that is used as a sail.

Origin of Velella

1825-35; New Latin, equivalent to Latin vēl(um) sail + -ella -ella

Examples for Velella

As the barnacles grew larger, the remains of the velella changed into large excrescences, half the size of a walnut.

I kept one specimen, to show old and young barnacles attached to the same velella.

A velella also was caught in the open bay: this is the first which has been observed in so high a latitude.

Thus in velella free medusae are produced, which have been described as an independent genus of medusae, Chrysomitra.

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