A feeler of the Physalia is tantamount to a multiple injection of poison.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Richet - Nobel Lecture] Reference

The Physalia is a self-sufficient ecosystem that generates all the power it needs from the sun and works to reduce water pollution through bio-filtration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whale-Shaped Floating Garden Cleans the World’s Rivers | Inhabitat] Reference

The Physalia, which is named after a species of jellyfish, is as forward-thinking in its eco-friendly features as it is in its design, boasting many of the same self-sustaining features as the creator's other green concept, the Dragonfly building.    From Wordnik.com.  [TreeHugger] Reference

Its name comes from “Physalia physalis”, meaning “water bubble”.    From Wordnik.com.  [iRobot Looj Cleans Gutters Faster and Easier] Reference

(Seen here, "Argonauta Argo" and "Physalia Arethusa" from the National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: September 24, 2006 - September 30, 2006 Archives] Reference

By Physalia - po Europą plaukiojantis ekosodas valytų upių vandenis on January 12, 2010 at 10: 46 am.    From Wordnik.com.  [iRobot Looj Cleans Gutters Faster and Easier] Reference

By Physalia, A Huge Floating Garden by Vincent Callebaut | Home decorating trends on January 12, 2010 at 2: 45 pm.    From Wordnik.com.  [iRobot Looj Cleans Gutters Faster and Easier] Reference

The sensation was as bad as that from a nettle, but more like that caused by the Physalia or Portuguese man-of-war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

Physalia was inspired by the “Physalia physalis” jellyfish, whose name translates roughly to “Water Bubble”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whale-Shaped Floating Garden Cleans the World’s Rivers | Inhabitat] Reference

In tropical waters, Coelenterata are to be found floating on the surface, also known as Physalia (Portuguese galleys).    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Richet - Nobel Lecture] Reference

Albert of Monaco, the Prince advised me to study Physalia poison, together with our friends Georges Richard and Paul Portier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Richet - Nobel Lecture] Reference

We found that it is easily dissolved in glycerol and that by injecting this glycerol solution, the symptoms of Physalia poisoning are reproduced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Richet - Nobel Lecture] Reference

Portuguese “men-of-war” (Physalia), numbers of small fish screen themselves from the eyes of birds of prey, and from the rays of the torrid sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries] Reference

This admirable plan was somewhat marred by our failure to consider the effects of a very strong wind and the unexpected presence of a few Portuguese Man O' War Physalia physalis which created a look of a few saddened balloons on the beach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beach and wind impressions] Reference

Physalia, A Huge Amphibious Garden Cleaning Waters Across Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [iRobot Looj Cleans Gutters Faster and Easier] Reference

By Whale Shaped ‘Physalia’ Could Clean European Rivers on January 11, 2010 at 8: 43 pm.    From Wordnik.com.  [iRobot Looj Cleans Gutters Faster and Easier] Reference

By Amazing Architectural Concept Physalia: The Amphibious Garden | Interior Designs And Home Ideas on February 8, 2010 at 4: 08 pm.    From Wordnik.com.  [iRobot Looj Cleans Gutters Faster and Easier] Reference

By Interior Dream » Blog Archive » Amazing Architectural Concept Physalia: The Amphibious Garden on February 14, 2010 at 6: 14 am.    From Wordnik.com.  [iRobot Looj Cleans Gutters Faster and Easier] Reference

Stanley, an account of Physalia, or Portuguese man-of-war as it is called, an animal whose structure and affinities had never been worked out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1] Reference

"The Physalia is designed to travel between the major rivers of Europe, purifying the water and facilitating international water conservation research.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

When the Physalia is anchored, it captures energy from the flowing river with special hyrdo-turbines -- essentially transforming the vessel into a power plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [TreeHugger] Reference

We had not rowed many strokes before one of the Physalia was observed floating by, its back ornamented with a fringe tinted with light-blue, delicate sea-green, and crimson.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Seaworth] Reference

Besides this means of defense, an acrid secretion, which is spread over its body, causes a sharp, stinging sensation, similar to that produced by the Physalia, or Portuguese man-of-war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter I] Reference

Now, he's moved his eco-friendly designs to the waterways with the Physalia -- a floating garden transport vessel that not only produces enough energy to sustain itself, but generates a bit to spare.    From Wordnik.com.  [TreeHugger] Reference

Sadly, there are no plans yet in the works to start producing the Physalia, though if it can truly deliver on the self-sustaining innovations promised by its design, there would be no more worthy project to begin.    From Wordnik.com.  [TreeHugger] Reference

A special protection, either in stinging tentacles like Physalia, or in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays] Reference

Physalia to study, I hit upon the idea of making a comparative study of the tentacles of the Actinia (Actinia eqnina.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Richet - Nobel Lecture] Reference

Whale-Shaped Floating Garden Cleans the World’s Rivers Physalia – Inhabitat about mission submit a story shop advertise with us support us press contact sign up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whale-Shaped Floating Garden Cleans the World’s Rivers Physalia – Inhabitat] Reference

Physalia physalis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pounding The Rock] Reference

Physalia, or Portuguese man-of-war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

Portuguese Man-of-War (Physalia utriculus).    From Wordnik.com.  [Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve] Reference

"Memoir on Physalia" "Proceedings of the Linnean Society" 2 (1855) 3-5.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3] Reference

Tagged amphibious garden, Architecture, design, Eco Architecture, European waterways, hydro-turbines, LifeStyle, Photovoltaic Cells, renewable energy, self-sufficient, Solar Energy, Sustainable Physalia, Vincent Callebaut Architects.    From Wordnik.com.  [iRobot Looj Cleans Gutters Faster and Easier] Reference