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sea pork

sea pork noun: certain colonial tunicates, such as of genus Aplidium (syn. Amaroucium), which resemble salt pork when found washed up on the beach.

sea pork: certain colonial tunicates, such as of genus Aplidium (syn. Amaroucium), which resemble salt pork...
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Noun

sea pork (uncountable)

  1. (US, colloquial) Certain colonial tunicates, such as of genus Aplidium (syn. Amaroucium), which resemble salt pork when found washed up on the beach.

Words formed from sea pork

  • Atlantic sea pork
  • northern sea pork
  • Pacific sea pork

Questions about sea pork

What does sea pork mean?
Sea pork means certain colonial tunicates, such as of genus Aplidium (syn. Amaroucium), which resemble salt pork when found washed up on the beach.
What part of speech is sea pork?
Sea pork is a noun.

Words near sea pork in the dictionary

  1. sea pomegranates
  2. sea poppies
  3. sea poppy
  4. sea porcupine
  5. sea porcupines
  6. sea pork
  7. sea potato
  8. sea power
  9. sea primrose
  10. sea primroses
  11. sea pudding

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