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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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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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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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