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Another word for jellyfish

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Noun
      1. Any of a class (Scyphozoa) of sea cnidarians, consisting of jellyfishes lacking a velum
      2. Any true jellyfish of the class Scyphozoa
      3. Any of various marine cnidarians of the class Scyphozoa, which includes most of the jellyfishes, characterized by the absence of a polyp stage or by a polyp that is extremely small.
      1. (Biology) Any of many colonial coelenterates, of the class Hydrozoa, including the hydras, hydroids, hydrocorals, and siphonophores.
      2. Any animal of this class, as a hydroid or Portuguese man-of-war
      3. Any of various cnidarians of the class Hydrozoa, including the hydras, hydroids, and siphonophores, which exhibit alternation of generations between the polyp and medusa stage or exist in only one or the other stage.
      1. Any of various marine invertebrates of the phylum Ctenophora, having transparent or translucent gelatinous bodies bearing eight rows of comblike cilia used for swimming. Many ctenophores are bioluminescent.
      2. Any of various marine animals of the phylum Ctenophora, having lucent, mucilaginous bodies bearing eight rows of comblike cilia used for swimming.
      3. Any of a phylum (Ctenophora) of sea animals with an oval, transparent, jellylike body bearing eight rows of comblike plates that aid in swimming
      1. Cnidarian
      2. A marine invertebrate belonging to the now obsolete phylum Coelenterata, which included the cnidarians and sometimes also the ctenophores.
      3. Any simple aquatic animal bearing tentacles with nematocysts. Examples include jellyfish, coral, and anemones.
      1. The Gorgon who was killed by Perseus.
      2. (Gr. Myth., person) One of the three Gorgons, slain by Perseus
      3. A body form of certain cnidarians such as jellyfish, consisting of a dome-shaped structure with a mouth underneath surrounded by tentacles, and in most species constituting the free-swimming sexual stage of the organism.
    See also:

    fish

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  • Click the right arrow as the jellyfish to the right pass into the dotted line, the down arrow as the jellyfish in the center get to the dotted line, and the left arrow as the jellyfish to the left approach the center of the dotted line.

  • The more accurate you are about hitting the buttons when the jellyfish are in the center of the dotted line, the more points you earn to build up your trick meter to the far left of the play screen.

  • Jellyfish venom is delivered by barbs called nematocysts, which are located on the creature's tentacles and penetrate the skin of people who brush up against them.

  • Scuba divers often wear them as well - they provide extra warmth, can make getting a wetsuit on and off considerably more quick and easy and can guard against jellyfish stings.

  • These range from the bites from a neighbor's dog or cat to bites from fellow humans and spiders to the stings from bees, wasps, snakes, and marine animals such as jellyfish and stingrays.

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