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jellyfish

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Jellyfish , or jellies , are the major non- polyp form of individuals of the phylum Cnidaria . They are typified as free-swimming marine animals consisting of a gelatinous umbrella -shaped bell and trailing tentacles. The bell can pulsate for locomotion ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
popular name of the medusa and similar sea-creatures, 1796, from jelly (n.) + fish (n.). Earlier it had been used of a type of actual fish (1707).

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jellyfish \Jel"ly*fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of the acalephs, esp. one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance. See Medusa and acaleph .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An almost transparent aquatic animal; any one of the acalephs, especially one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance. 2 # A cnidarian, a member of the phylum Cnidaria. 3 ## A scyphozoan, a member of the class Scyphozoa (the true jelly). ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles [syn: Portuguese man-of-war , man-of-war ] any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans ...

Usage examples of jellyfish.

I was the blue-green algae floating on the currents, soaking up sunlight, and I was a diatom and an arrowworm and a kerfer slicing open the soft tissues of a jellyfish.

An organism of the invertebrate phylum Cnidaria, a group of about nine thousand species including jellyfish, corals, and anemones.

I saw her as a glowing paramecium, a jellyfish, a glass police car, and a demonic art patron.

As on other worlds, the ocean swarmed with copepods, salps, annelid worms, sponges, and jellyfish, and with squid, swallowers, sharks and other fishes higher on the food chain.

Thirty specialised probes hung on telemetric cables from the underside of the gondola, dangling like the venom-tipped stingers of some grotesque aerial jellyfish.

Blue crab, rock shrimp, shark, yellowfin tuna, hard clam, spiny lobster, stone crab, cannonball jellyfish, American alligator, you name it, and in large amounts, too.

There was a lot of life to see less than a few feet from his nose: tiny crustaceans crawling through the gently bobbing mat, the flash of falling sunlight off the silver sides of small fish, the fine patterns of jellyfish drifting near the surface like abandoned, sodden doilies of fine lace.

Milton hoses from the sidewalk every morning includes the dead jellyfish of prophylactics and the occasional hermit crab of a lost high heel.

The muscular soldiers picked up driftwood, seahorses, periwinkle, clear, rubbery jellyfish.

Crushing teeth, grinding bones like twigs wrapped in meat and the pain was something almost alive, dragging itself up her arm like fire or a stranded jellyfish or when they were eight and Blondie had closed her hand in the car door.

There were structures like clouds, and creatures like the soft-plastic toys, shaped like amoebae or jellyfish, that children play with.

Jellyfish were battening on the drifting garbage of the great ships that were gone.

There was life in it, though not in the greatest abundance: thin strands of scalloped maroon seaweed, near-invisible jellyfish trailing their opalescent fringes, tiny dark skates hovering like bats, small silvery backboned fish gliding and darting—some of them, a blue-and-yellow-ringed and black-spotted school, even contesting lazily over the Black Treasurer's morning garbage, which the Mouser recognized by a large pallid beef bone Fafhrd had gnawed briefly before tossing overside.

Luminescent angler fish and eels and elaborately shaped jellyfish writhed through the blackness.

She surfaced with a translucent disc the size of her hand, trailing short tentacles that disquietingly resembled those of a box jellyfish.