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1. (n.) jellyfish
any stinging, jellylike marine cnidarian of the class Scyphozoa, living in the developmental stage as a tiny attached polyp and in the adult stage as a large free-floating medusa with trailing tentacles.
2. jellyfish
an indecisive or weak person.
Etymology: (1700–10)
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| Definition of 'jellyfish' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) Portuguese man-of-war, man-of-war, jellyfish
large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles
2. (noun) jellyfish
any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans
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| Definition of 'jellyfish' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) jellyfish
any one of the acalephs, esp. one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance. See Medusa
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Sense: a kind of sea animal with a jelly-like body
The child was stung by a jellyfish.
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Afrikaans: drilvis |
Arabic: قَنْديل البَحْر |
Bulgarian: медуза |
Brazilian: medusa |
Czech: medúza |
German: die Qualle |
Danish: vandmand; brandmand |
Greek: μέδουσα |
Spanish: medusa |
Estonian: meduus |
Farsi: چتر دریایی |
Finnish: meduusa |
French: méduse |
Hebrew: מְדוּזָה |
Hindi: जेली मछली |
Croatian: meduza |
Hungarian: medúza |
Indonesian: ubur-ubur |
Icelandic: marglytta |
Italian: medusa |
Japanese: くらげ |
Korean: 강장(腔腸) 동물 |
Lithuanian: medūza |
Latvian: medūza |
Malay: ubur-ubur |
Dutch: kwal |
Norwegian: (brenn)manet |
Polish: meduza |
Persian: چتر دریایی |
Pashto: يو ډول بحري ژوى چې دشمزۍ |
Portuguese: alforreca |
Romanian: meduză |
Russian: медуза |
Slovak: medúza |
Slovenian: meduza |
Serbian: meduza |
Swedish: manet |
Thai: แมงกะพรุน |
Turkish: deniz anası, medüz |
Taiwanese: 海蜇, 水母 |
Ukrainian: медуза |
Urdu: جیلی کی طرح نرم جسم والی |
Vietnamese: con sứa |
Chinese: 海蜇,水母 |
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