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Aequorea
noun
Ae·quo·rea
\ē-ˈkwȯr-ē-ə\
Definition of Aequorea
: a cosmopolitan genus (the type of the family Aequoridae) of brilliantly luminescent hydrozoan jellyfish of moderate size
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Origin and Etymology of aequorea
New Latin, from Latin, feminine of aequoreus of the sea, from aequor sea, even surface, from aequus even, equal
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