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JELLYFISH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: jellyfishes   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("jellyfish" is a kind of...):

cnidarian; coelenterate (radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jellyfish"):

Aegina (small medusa)

Chrysaora quinquecirrha (a type of jellyfish)

Holonyms ("jellyfish" is a member of...):

Cnidaria; Coelenterata; phylum Cnidaria; phylum Coelenterata (hydras; polyps; jellyfishes; sea anemones; corals)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles

Synonyms:

jellyfish; man-of-war; Portuguese man-of-war

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("jellyfish" is a kind of...):

siphonophore (a floating or swimming oceanic colony of polyps often transparent or showily colored)

Holonyms ("jellyfish" is a member of...):

genus Physalia; Physalia (Portuguese man-of-war)

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