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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. 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. n. Any of various similar or related coelenterates.
  3. n. Informal One who lacks force of character; a weakling.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A popular name of many kinds of acalephs, medusas, sea-blubbers, or sea-nettles: so called from the soft, gelatinous structure. As commonly used, the name applies especially to those discophorous hvdrozoans which have an umbrella-like disk, by the pulsation of which, or its alternate dilatation and contraction, they are propelled through the water, trailing long appendages, which have the property of nettling or stinging; when they are touched. Jellyfish are often found swimming in shoals in summer, to the great annoyauce of bathers. The different genera and species are very numerous. Some of the ctenophorans or comb-jellies are also called by this name. See Acalephœ, Discophora, Hydrozoa.

Wiktionary

  1. n. zoology Almost transparent aquatic being; any one of the acalephs, especially one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) Any one of the acalephs, esp. one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance. See medusa and acaleph.

WordNet 3.0

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

Examples

  • “The term "jellyfish" often is used to denote weakness.”

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  • “The term "jellyfish" encompasses two different groups: Cnidaria, animals”

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  • “From the edge, which emit green light when the jellyfish is agitated, Shimomura isolated a protein.”

    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008 - Illustrated Presentation

  • “The Telegraph reports that: "An 'immortal' jellyfish is swarming through the world's oceans, according to scientists.”

    The 'Immortal' jellyfish

  • “This deadly species of jellyfish is only found in certain areas of the world, mainly in Australia. 6 There have been over 60 deaths from C. fleckeri in tropical Australia over the last century. 11 The early systemic symptoms of envenomation include dizziness, confusionand agitation and unconsciousness and can occur within minutes.”

    Fish poisonings and envenomations

  • “The Chironex fleckeri of the chirodropid species, also known as the sea wasp or the box jellyfish, is considered the most deadly jellyfish in the world. 3 Stings from its tentacles cause an erythematous whipped appearance on the skin and may result in blackening and necrosis in the area.”

    Fish poisonings and envenomations

  • “The jellyfish is part of the cnidarians, the family relationship of which is depicted in the figure on the left (click on image to view it in full scale).”

    2005 June - Telic Thoughts

  • “They were far out of the course of steamers, and saw no craft of any kind, save fleets of "Portuguese men-o'-war," as Joe Swanson and the others called the jellyfish squadrons.”

    The Pirate Shark

  • “It's a certain kind of jellyfish, which is collected, then laid out in the sun with salt, until it solidifies.”

    Posthuman Blues

  • “The jellyfish is a skydiver whose shoot didn't open.”

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  1. siphonophore

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  1. squid
  2. octopus
  1. plankton
  2. stormtrooper
  1. algae
  2. mussel
  1. prawn
  2. abalone
  1. porpoise
  2. octopi
  1. anemone
  2. shrimp

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. chrysaora quinquecirrha
  2. sea blubber
  3. manubrium
  4. hydromedusa
  5. quarl
  6. carvel
  7. gamobium
  8. jelly
  1. pileus
  2. beroe
  3. pulsate
  4. sea-blubber
  5. sea-jelly
  6. sea nettle
  7. semostomous
  8. sunsquall
  1. agamobium
  2. aequorin
  3. cyaneid
  4. lucernaridan
  5. mackerel-bait
  6. ectoderm
  7. strobila
  8. zooplankton
  1. medusa
  2. medusoid
  3. nematocyst
  4. fish
  5. sea-gall
  6. strobilation
  7. subumbrella
  8. umbrella
  1. euphausia pacifica
  2. Medusa
  3. nectocalyx
  4. sea jelly
  5. slobber
  6. sunfish
  7. pulmograde
  8. thread-cell

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  • PossibleUnderscore I didn't even know people ate jellyfish... but I suppose people eat most things nowadays. Jan 10, 2011

  • Prolagus Hee hee! Jan 8, 2011

  • ruzuzu Is that parsley? I always assumed you'd serve jellyfish with peanut butter. Jan 8, 2011

  • Prolagus Jellyfish. Jan 8, 2011

  • sionnach Coming soon to a field near you. Mar 14, 2010

  • bilby
    Who wants my jellyfish?
    I'm not sellyfish.
    - Ogden Nash, 'The Jellyfish'. Dec 5, 2008

  • seanahan A jellyfish having sex with a bear? Dec 14, 2006

  • born2badored what is stranger than jellyfish sex? Dec 6, 2006

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