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Part Two: The Journey Out

la mar, el mar sea (Spanish feminine noun, Spanish masculine noun).

bonito any of a genus of marine game and food scombroid fishes.

albacore a tuna with unusually long pectoral fins, important as a game and food fish in all warm seas.

flying fish a warm-sea fish with winglike pectoral fins that enable it to glide through the air.

big blue runner any of various edible jack fishes of warm seas, as a bluish species and a striped bluish species.

yellow jack an edible, gold-and-silver marine jack fish found near Florida and the West Indies.

dolphin a game fish with colors that brighten and change when the fish is taken out of the water.

man-of-war bird a large, tropical bird with extremely long wings and tail and a hooked beak.

plankton the usually microscopic animal and plant life found floating or drifting in the ocean or in bodies of fresh water, used as food by nearly all aquatic animals.

Sargasso weed floating brown algae found in tropical seas and having a main stem with flattened outgrowths like leaves, and branches with berry-like air sacs.

gelatinous like gelatin or jelly; having the consistency of gelatin or jelly; viscous.

Portuguese man-of-war a large, warm-sea jellyfish that floats on the water and has long, dangling tentacles with powerful stinging cells.

agua mala (Spanish) jellyfish; Portuguese man-of-war.

carapace the horny, protective covering over all or part of the back of certain animals, as the upper shell of the turtle, armadillo, crab, etc.

green turtle, hawk-bill, loggerhead turtles.


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