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nounlarge siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles
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nounany of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoanstype of:
Definition that contains jellyfish
- hydrozoa coelenterates typically having alternation of generations; hydroid phase is usually colonial giving rise to the medusoid phase by budding: hydras and jellyfishes
- coelenterata hydras; polyps; jellyfishes; sea anemones; corals
- scyphozoa coelenterates in which the polyp stage is absent or at least inconspicuous: jellyfishes
- comb jelly biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb
- chrysaora quinquecirrha a type of jellyfish
- euphausia pacifica food for jellyfish
- ctenophore biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb
- class hydrozoa coelenterates typically having alternation of generations; hydroid phase is usually colonial giving rise to the medusoid phase by budding: hydras and jellyfishes
- phylum cnidaria hydras; polyps; jellyfishes; sea anemones; corals
- class scyphozoa coelenterates in which the polyp stage is absent or at least inconspicuous: jellyfishes