Lexic.us

Definition of Jellyfish

1. Noun. Large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles.

2. Noun. Any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans.

Definition of Jellyfish

1. n. Any one of the acalephs, esp. one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance. See Medusa.

Definition of Jellyfish

1. Noun. (zoology) Almost transparent aquatic being; any one of the acalephs, especially one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Jellyfish

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Medical Definition of Jellyfish

1. Any one of the acalephs, especially. One of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance. See Medusa. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jellyfish

jelly doughnut jelly doughnuts jelly egg jelly fish jelly fungus jelly roll jelly roll pan jelly roll pans jelly rolls jelly shoe

jellybean jellybeans jellybelly jellycopter jellycopters jellyfish (current term) jellyfish baby jellyfish tree jellyfishes jellyfishlike

jellygraph jellygraphs jellying jellyish jellyleaf jellylike jellyrolls

Literary usage of Jellyfish

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1908)
"In August, 1006, a call was received at the hospital stating that a man, who had been in swimming off Sangley Point, had been stung by a jellyfish and was ..."

2. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"This jellyfish is common along the eastern coast of the United States. It measures about half an inch in diameter, without including the fringe of tentacles ..."

3. Folded Paper Projects by Joy Evans, Jo Ellen Moore (2000)
"Make jellyfish in several colors. Laminate the jellyfish and use them for hall ... Use this to make a large version of the jellyfish for a bulletin board. ..."

4. The World's Wit and Humor: An Encyclopedia of the Classic Wit and Humor of by Lionel Strachey (1912)
"For I'm simply a lump of limpid lard, With a gluey sort of a wish To pass my time in the oozing slime— In the home of the jellyfish. But I'm happy in having ..."

5. Practical Zoology by Robert William Hegner (1915)
"colony and swim away as jellyfish or medusae. The medusae produce eggs and ... A jellyfish swimming. (From Jammes.) scribed, but most of them are placed in ..."

6. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"jellyfish. —The discovery of fossil jellyfish in Cambrian rocks is most surprising, since these animals have no bony skeletons or shells. ..."

7. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"jellyfish. — The discovery of fossil jellyfish in Cambrian rocks is most surprising, since these animals have no bony skeletons or shells. ..."

8. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"Descriptions of a remarkable new jellyfish and two ... jellyfish, which is the type of a new genus, and represents a family previously unknown upon our ..."

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