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jellyfish [ˈdʒɛlɪˌfɪʃ] n pl -fish, -fishes
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any marine medusoid coelenterate of the class Scyphozoa, having a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body with trailing tentacles 2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any other medusoid coelenterate 3. Informal a weak indecisive person ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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Least irritation, least effort, the ideal existence: a jellyfish floating in a tideless, tepid, twilight sea. So Daughtry and his crew went ashore into 'Frisco Town uheralded and unsung, the second following morning's lucubrations of the sea reporters being varied disportations upon the attack on an Italian crab fisherman by an enormous jellyfish. The bay looks beautiful, but you can't bathe in it because of the jellyfish. |
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