| NOUN | animal | jellyfish, Portuguese man-of-war, man-of-war | large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles |
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| animal | jellyfish | any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans |
| Sounds | jheh'liyfih.sh | |
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| Rhymes | abolish ... Yiddish: 161 rhymes with ihsh... | |
| Meaning | large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles. | |
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| Synonyms | Portuguese man-of-war, man-of-war | |
| Member of | Physalia, genus Physalia | Portuguese man-of-war |
| Broader | siphonophore | A floating or swimming oceanic colony of polyps often transparent or showily colored |
| Spanish | medusa | |
| Catalan | medusa | |
| Meaning | Any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans. | |
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| Member of | Cnidaria, phylum Cnidaria, Coelenterata, phylum Coelenterata | hydras |
| Narrower | Aegina | small medusa |
| Chrysaora quinquecirrha | A type of jellyfish | |
| Broader | coelenterate, cnidarian | radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures |
| Spanish | medusa | |
| Catalan | medusa | |
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