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sea walnut

sea walnut noun: a comb jelly in the genus Mnemiopsis, native to the western Atlantic Ocean but invasive around the world.

Noun

sea walnut (plural sea walnuts)

  1. A comb jelly in the genus Mnemiopsis, native to the western Atlantic Ocean but invasive around the world.
    • In the early 1980s the Warty comb jelly or Sea walnut was introduced (probably from the ballast water of ships from North America) to the Black Sea, a habitat in which it had no natural predators. By the summer of 1989 it was proliferating in such numbers and consuming so much plankton in the Black...2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 318

Forms of sea walnut

pluralsea walnuts

Questions about sea walnut

What does sea walnut mean?
Sea walnut means a comb jelly in the genus Mnemiopsis, native to the western Atlantic Ocean but invasive around the world.
What part of speech is sea walnut?
Sea walnut is a noun.
What is the plural of sea walnut?
The plural of sea walnut is sea walnuts.

Words near sea walnut in the dictionary

  1. sea violet
  2. sea violets
  3. sea vomit
  4. sea wall
  5. sea walls
  6. sea walnut
  7. sea walnuts
  8. sea wasp
  9. sea wasps
  10. sea water
  11. sea whip

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