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Cliona
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Translingual
thumb|Cliona celata species Cliona celata
Etymology
mul Robert Edmond Grant 1826 Scottish zoologist, from mul grc κλείω shut.
Proper noun
1 f
genus family Clionaidae family many demosponges
Hyponyms
genus Cliona celata species (red boring sponge) - type species; Cliona patera species (Neptune's cup) - selected other species
References
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1826 R.E. Grant Notice of a New Zoophyte (Cliona celata Gr.) from the Firth of Forth Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 1 78-81
English
Etymology
en ga Clíona.
Pronunciation
en /ˈkliːənə/ /ˈkliːnə/
en
Proper noun
en female Irish.
en-GB Simon Hattenstone ‘I can speak more freely - and go to the gym’: former Irish taoiseach Leo Varadkar on Trump, the ‘snogging scandal’ and his country’s anti-immigrant backlash The Guardian 2025-09-13 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/13/former-irish-taoiseach-leo-varadkar-interview-trump-snogging-scandal-anti-immigrant-backlash 0261-3077 Accompanying [Leo] Varadkar is his book publicist, Cliona. She says he would like to have something to eat and suggests she and I return in half an hour.