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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A stinging jellyfish, especially a scyphozoan (Dactylometra quinquecirrha) of the tropical Atlantic.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A jellyfish; any acaleph that stings or urticates when touched.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A jellyfish, or medusa.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) a medusa.
  2. A jellyfish, or medusa.

Etymologies

  1. Because of its sting. See nettle ("stinging plant"). (Wiktionary)

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  1. sting
  2. sea-blubber
  1. Medusa
  2. blubber
  1. nettle-fish
  2. stinging-cell
  1. sunsquall
  2. fallen-star
  1. stinging
  2. thread-cell

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