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Jellyfish

noun

Large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles. Synonyms: man-of-war, Portuguese man-of-war.

Any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans.

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"Jellyfish" Quotes from Famous Books

... air was full of the prolonged thunder of the surf, and at intervals sea-birds passed overhead with an occasional piping cry. Wreckage was tumbled about here and there; and innumerable cocoanut shards, huge, brown cups of fuzzy bark, lay underfoot and in the crevices of the rocks. They found a jellyfish—a pulpy translucent mass; and once even caught a sight of a seal in the hollow of a breaker, with sleek and shining head, his barbels bristling, and heard his hoarse croaking bark as he hunted ...

— Blix • Frank Norris

... looked tired, to be sure, but that was almost normal. The eyes weren't bloodshot red, and didn't seem to bug out at all, although Malone would have sworn that they were bleeding all over his face. His head was its normal size, as near as he remembered; it was not swollen visibly, or pulsing like a jellyfish at ...

— The Impossibles • Gordon Randall Garrett

... line of endeavor. Say, Bunch, if it were not for the knocks contained therein one of that guy's essays would read like the maiden effort of a lovesick jellyfish. ...

— You Can Search Me • Hugh McHugh

... pettishly, "hast no more bones in thy fat carcass than a jellyfish? Lend a hand, here! Yo, heave ho!" and he dragged the Padre into an upright position. "Now, then, who and what ...

— Legends and Tales • Bret Harte

... heartbreaking disappointment as my continued efforts on behalf of really well-intentioned individuals, who could not stand alone owing to their lack of grit and moral backbone. For redemptive purposes I would rather, a hundred times rather, have to deal with a big sinner than with a human jellyfish, a flabby man who does no great wrong, but on the other hand does not ...

— London's Underworld • Thomas Holmes

Words linked to "Jellyfish" : Portuguese man-of-war, Aegina, Chrysaora quinquecirrha, Cnidaria, phylum Coelenterata, Coelenterata, Physalia, cnidarian, genus Physalia, siphonophore, coelenterate, phylum Cnidaria, man-of-war