Jellyfish synonyms

jĕl'ē-fĭsh'

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medusa
(Gr. Myth., person) One of the three Gorgons, slain by Perseus
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fish (related)
(Uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
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shark (related)
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whale (related)
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portuguese-man-of-war
Used other than as an idiom: see Portuguese,"Ž man-of-war.
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ctenophore
Any of a phylum (Ctenophora) of sea animals with an oval, transparent, jellylike body bearing eight rows of comblike plates that aid in swimming
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hydrozoan
(Biology) Any of many colonial coelenterates, of the class Hydrozoa, including the hydras, hydroids, hydrocorals, and siphonophores.
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man-of-war
Used other than as an idiom: see man,"Ž of,"Ž war. (A military man.)
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nudibranch (related)
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tubeworms (related)
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rhizostoma (related)
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Rootmouth (related)
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frogfish (related)
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scorpionfish (related)
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triggerfish (related)
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cyanea (related)
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scyphozoan
Any true jellyfish of the class Scyphozoa
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dogfish (related)
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porpoise (related)
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crabs (related)
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coelenterate
A marine invertebrate belonging to the now obsolete phylum Coelenterata, which included the cnidarians and sometimes also the ctenophores.
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Jellyfish Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • Hugh attacked - Jan 05 Hugh Grant stung by jellyfish in Barbados.

  • The hard skeleton of coral is built by a community of animals related to jellyfish, coral polyps.

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