Usually means: Floating marine animal, sail-like.
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  1. velella: Merriam-Webster
  2. Velella, velella: Wordnik
  3. velella: Wiktionary
  4. velella: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. Velella, velella: Dictionary.com
  6. Velella: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Velella: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. velella: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Velella: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. velella: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Velella: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (velella)

▸ noun:  (zoology) Any of the genus Velella of free-floating marine protozoans in family Porpitidae.

Similar:
velellid, vorticella, volute, volvox, veillonella, voluta, velutinid, vampyrellid, volutid, vannellid, more...

Types:
by-the-wind sailor, purple sail, fragile sail, little sail, more...

Phrases:
velella velella, velella velella, more...

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Similar:
velellid, vorticella, volute, volvox, veillonella, voluta, velutinid, vampyrellid, volutid, vannellid, more...

Types:
by-the-wind sailor, purple sail, fragile sail, little sail, more...

Phrases:
velella velella, velella velella, more...



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