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Jellyfish

Jellyfish Meaning & Definition
Jellyfish Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Jellyfish?

[n] any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans
[n] large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles

Synonyms | Synonyms for Jellyfish: man-of-war | medusa | medusan | Portuguese man-of-war

Related Terms | Find terms related to Jellyfish: baby | big baby | chicken | chicken liver | Chilopoda | Chordata | coward | crybaby | doormat | dull tool | Echiuroidea | Ectoprocta | Entoprocta | fence-sitter | fraid-cat | fraidy-cat | funk | funker | gutless wonder | invertebrate | lightweight | lily liver | meek soul | milksop | Milquetoast | mollycoddle | Monoplacophora | mouse | mugwump | namby-pamby | nebbish | Nemertinea | nonentity | pansy | pantywaist | Phoronidea | pushover | sad sack | scaredy-cat | shilly-shally | sissy | softling | softy | sop | waverer | weak sister | weakling | white feather | white liver | wobbler

See Also | Aegina | Chrysaora quinquecirrha | Cnidaria | cnidarian | Coelenterata | coelenterate | genus Physalia | phylum Cnidaria | phylum Coelenterata | Physalia | siphonophore

Jellyfish In Webster's Dictionary

\Jel"ly*fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of the acalephs, esp. one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance. See {Medusa}.

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