- Breakwater - Marine structure - Pier - Made of jet, or like jet in color. - A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest,
and overhangs the wall below. - A wharf or pier extending from the shore. - A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to
influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor; a mole; as, the
Eads system of jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
- That which shines at night; -- a fanciful name for
phosphorus. - A genus of marine flagellate Infusoria, remarkable for
their unusually large size and complex structure, as well as for their
phosphorescence. The brilliant diffuse phosphorescence of the sea is
often due to myriads of Noctilucae.
- A genus of marine annelids, believed to be an ancient
or ancestral type. It is remarkable for its simplicity of structure and
want of parapodia. It is the type of the order Archiannelida, or
Gymnotoma. See Loeven's larva.