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JELLYFISH
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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:
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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