SINCE 1828
Porpita
noun
Por·pi·ta
| \ˈpȯ(r)pətə\
Definition of Porpita
: a genus of small bright-colored siphonophores that float in the warmer parts of the ocean and have a large feeding zooid and a float in the center surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids and by slender dactylozooids near the margin
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