Zool. [a. L. Beroë, Gr. βερόη, name of a daughter of the mythical Oceanus.] A genus of small, gelatinous, marine animals classed by Huxley among the Cœlenterata; they swim freely in the sea, and are phosphorescent at night.
1769. Phil. Trans., LIX. 144. The beroe is a marine animal found on our coasts.
1835. Kirby, Hab. & Inst. Anim., I. vi. 198. [The gelatines] as well as the beroe, are said to form part of the food of the whale.
1883. C. F. Holder, in Harper’s Mag., Jan., 181/2. The beroes are perhaps the most familiar.
