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sea walnuts

sea walnuts is the plural of sea walnut.

Meaning of sea walnut

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

Questions about sea walnuts

What is sea walnuts the plural of?
Sea walnuts is the plural of sea walnut.

Words near sea walnuts in the dictionary

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

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