NECTOCALYX

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

The swimming bell or umbrella of a jellyfish of medusa.

2.
n.

One of the zooids of certain Siphonophora, having somewhat the form, and the essential structure, of the bell of a jellyfish, and acting as a swimming organ.

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