Definition of Diphyes
:a genus of oceanic hydrozoans of the order Siphonophora having two large swimming bells at the upper end of a stock that bears the polyps
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Diphyes
noun
Diph·y·es
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ˈdifēˌēz
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Origin and Etymology of diphyes
New Latin, from Greek diphyēs double
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