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Jellyfish

noun

Large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles. Synonyms: man-of-war, Portuguese man-of-war.

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

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"Jellyfish" Quotes from Famous Books

... rapidly round for a few moments, then up springs the wasp—victorious. The wretched victim is not dead; its legs move a little, but its soft body is paralyzed, and lies collapsed, flabby, and powerless as a stranded jellyfish. And this is the invariable result of every such conflict. In other classes of beings, even the weakest hunted thing occasionally succeeds in inflicting pain on its persecutor, and the small trembling mouse, unable to save itself, can sometimes make the cat shriek with paiu; but there is ...

— The Naturalist in La Plata • W. H. Hudson

... Trefethan commanded angrily. "That's what the Goldstead did to me—God knows how many millions, but nothing left in my soul..... nor in my veins. The good red blood is gone. I am a jellyfish, a huge, gross mass of ...

— The Night-Born • Jack London

Words linked to "Jellyfish" : phylum Cnidaria, coelenterate, Cnidaria, Physalia, cnidarian, Coelenterata, Chrysaora quinquecirrha, genus Physalia, man-of-war, siphonophore, phylum Coelenterata, Aegina