sea-nettle

One should mention that from the biology of the sea-nettle (Chrysaora fusescens), the so called jelly-fish, the actuality of Eternal organic life (put so here oddly, as in the texts of the directorate itself, with reference to Eternal concept, Plato etc.) became apparent.

The Pulse-Soldier 2010

We are, unhappily, ignorant of the nature of these two faculties: we possess them, but their origin is no more known to us than to the oyster, the sea-nettle, the polypus, worms, or plants.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Other creatures adhere at one time to an object and detach themselves from it at other times, as is the case with a species of the so-called sea-nettle; for some of these creatures seek their food in the night-time loose and unattached.

The History of Animals 2002

Of the sea-nettle, or sea-anemone, there are two species; and of these one species lives in hollows and never loosens its hold upon the rocks, and the other lives on smooth flat reefs, free and detached, and shifts its position from time to time.

The History of Animals 2002

The sea-nettle, or sea-anemone, clings to rocks like certain of the testaceans, but at times relaxes its hold.

The History of Animals 2002

The sea-nettle appears to be devoid altogether of excretion, and in this respect it resembles a plant.

The History of Animals 2002

Some creatures get their living in the water and cannot exist outside it: but for all that do not take in either air or water, as, for instance, the sea-nettle and the oyster.

The History of Animals 2002

Another species of the sea-nettle roams freely abroad.

The History of Animals 2002

The sea-scolopendra, like the land-scolopendra, will come to a savoury bait; the creature does not bite with its teeth, but stings by contact with its entire body, like the so-called sea-nettle.

The History of Animals 2002

Something that looked like a vast sea-nettle was slowly sinking down toward them from the sky.

Hunters Out of Space Joseph Everidge Kelleam 1944