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  • You know, Jacob, that the North Seas are full of these animals -- you cannot imagine the quantity of them; the sailors call them blubbers, because they are composed of a sort of transparent jelly but the real name I am told is Medusae, that is the learned name.

    Jacob Faithful Frederick Marryat 1820

  • The Medusae are the most perfect, the most individualised animals of the series, and it is only in accordance with what very generally obtains in the animal kingdom, if, in their early condition, they approximate towards the simplest forms of the group to which they belong.”

    Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900

  • See, the Medusae want the weapon, too: "they vaguely resemble a jellyfish, but are actually elephant-sized, four-eyed, flying beings having hundreds of tentacles."

    Jack Williamson's "Legion of Space" Series 2008

  • And as they touched them there was the swift dissolution, the melting away into putrescence of flesh and bone that I had witnessed when the dart touched fruit that time I had saved Rador — and upon this the Medusae gorged; pulsing lambently; their wondrous colours shifting, changing, glowing stronger; elfin moons now indeed, but satellites whose glimmering beauty was fed by death; alembics of enchantment whose glorious hues were sucked from horror.

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • Stretched along their length was a wide ribbon of beauty — a shimmering multitude of gleaming, pulsing, prismatic moons; glowing, glowing ever brighter, ever more wondrous — the gigantic Medusae globes feasting on dwarf and frog-man alike!

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • I gasped — for the fish had been a ganoid — that ancient, armoured form that was perhaps the most intelligent of all life on our planet during the Devonian era, but which for age upon age had vanished, save for its fossils held in the embrace of the stone that once was their soft bottom beds; and the half-globes were Medusae, jelly-fish — but of a size, luminosity, and colour unheard of.

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • The giant Medusae drifted — stately, luminous kaleidoscopic elfin moons.

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • Medusae, of which, of course, they are not too remote cousins.

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • Medusae, microscopic crustacea, and pennatules lit it slightly with their phosphorescent gleam.

    Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

  • These included work on the embryology of insects, published in 1866, and, in 1886, his studies of the embryology of Medusae.

    Ilya Mechnikov - Biography 1967

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