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Definition of Jellyfishes
1. jellyfish [n] - See also: jellyfish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jellyfishes
Literary usage of Jellyfishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elementary Zoology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1901)
"These are the bodies or parts of bodies of jellyfishes which have been cast ...
The jellyfishes occur in great numbers on the surface of the ocean and are ..."
2. Light Side of Science by Andrew Wilson (1898)
"Now that the warm days of summer are not far distant, the times and seasons of
the jellyfishes are at hand. No one who has sojourned even for a few hours at ..."
3. A Text-book in General Zoölogy by Glenn Washington Herrick (1907)
"... which include the corals, jellyfishes, sea anemones, etc., occur, without
exception, in the water, and the majority of them are found in the sea. ..."
4. Half Hours with the Lower Animals: Protozoans, Sponges, Corals, Shells by Charles Frederick Holder (1905)
"THE jellyfishes AMONG the most beautiful and fragile of all animals are the
singular forms which we call jellyfishes (Fig. 19). FIG. 19. ..."
5. Structure and polarity of the electric motor nerve-cell in torpedoes by Ulric Dahlgren (1915)
"They are common in bays and brackish estuaries and are the largest and most
conspicuous of all jellyfishes in temperate regions. ..."