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Definition of Chrysaora
1. Noun. A genus of Scyphozoa.
Generic synonyms: Coelenterate Genus
Group relationships: Class Scyphozoa, Scyphozoa
Member holonyms: Chrysaora Quinquecirrha
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chrysaora
Literary usage of Chrysaora
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1861)
"... as well as the specimens which I myself obtained in Buckinghamshire, were
inhabitants of a chalky soil. XL.—On Hermaphrodite Reproduction in chrysaora ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"(1) Most of the chrysaora of Peron are mere varieties of this species. ...
7—12, which are referable to our chrysaora, and to which should be approximated ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1883)
"... D'Orb. It is the chrysaora spinosa of Michelin. ... another chrysaora type—was
found by Walton at Bath. ..."
4. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"Segmentation is regular: the blastocoele is large in Pelagia and chrysaora, small
in other cases. The endoderm is formed by an invagination the cavity of ..."
5. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1879)
"... the sexual products are carried away, normally through the mouth ; and the
four sub-genital cavities (scarcely developed in chrysaora, wanting in the ..."