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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