Definitions for acalephs

acalephs ac·a·leph

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

Acalephs is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 307 anagrams from letters in acalephs (aacehlps).

Definitions for acalephs

noun

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

Origin of acalephs

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

Examples for acalephs

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for acalephs
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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