dictionary definitions for "jellyfish"


From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  jellyfish
      n 1: large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging
           tentacles [syn: Portuguese man-of-war, man-of-war,
           jellyfish]
      2: any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming
         coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms
         of hydrozoans and scyphozoans

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Jellyfish \Jel"ly*fish`\, n. (Zool.)
     Any one of the acalephs, esp. one of the larger species,
     having a jellylike appearance. See Medusa and acaleph.
     [1913 Webster]


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