jellyfish

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Throughout the year, the incredibly venomous Box-jellyfish is also found in Darwin's beaches.

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  1. noun Any of numerous usually free-swimming marine coelenterates of the class Scyphozoa, characteristically having a gelatinous, tentacled, often bell-shaped medusoid stage as the dominant phase of its life cycle.
  2. noun Any of various similar or related coelenterates.
  3. noun Informal One who lacks force of character; a weakling.

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  • The seahorses and jellyfish are a welcomed relief from the weather. —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • Prof. Shimomura first isolated GFP in 1962 from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria whose outer edge glows green when the jellyfish is agitated. —  LabTechnologist RSS
  • Main Characteristics Radial symmetrical  include the hydroids, jellyfish, anemones, and  corals have tentacles with stinging cells in their tips  which are used to capture and subdue prey one of two basic body types, polypoid or  medusoid. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • And it's made out of "jelly" rather like a jellyfish, not a normal squid. —  Dark Roasted Blend
  • Scientific American article on transparent marine animals: siphonophores, Venus's girdles, jellyfish, and roachlike creatures whose needle-shaped guts rendered their partly digested but still-opaque contents as inconspicuous as possible. —  Slate Magazine
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