Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A jelly-fish; a sea-nettle: so called from its stinging or urticating.
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Examples
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"I can't help thinking that some nettle-fish must have got hold of me in the water.
The Three Midshipmen William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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