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Definition of Genus chrysaora
1. Noun. A genus of Scyphozoa.
Generic synonyms: Coelenterate Genus
Group relationships: Class Scyphozoa, Scyphozoa
Member holonyms: Chrysaora Quinquecirrha
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Chrysaora
Literary usage of Genus chrysaora
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate by Richard Owen (1855)
"Dalyell narrates, in his beautiful work, that one summer having selected a specimen
of a Medusa of the genus Chrysaora, he kept it alive in a capacious jar ..."
2. Structure and polarity of the electric motor nerve-cell in torpedoes by Ulric Dahlgren (1915)
"... These are all small and about 10 mm. in diameter, evidently being taken from
a swarm of immature individuals. Genus CHRYSAORA Peron and Lesueur, 1809. ..."
3. Sex, Its Origin and Determination: A Study of the Metabolic Cycle and Its by Thomas E. Reed (1913)
"Among jelly fish the genus chrysaora is known to be hermaphrodite." As we follow
the animal scale to the higher forms we find normal, adult hermaphroditism ..."
4. The Evolution of Sex by Patrick Geddes, John Arthur Thomson (1908)
"... the genus Chrysaora is known to be hermaphrodite. (3.) " Worms."—The condition
of the sexual organs varies enormously among the diverse types lumped ..."
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