Meaning Of The Word Jellyfish

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What's The Definition Of Jellyfish?

jellyfish
countable noun: A jellyfish is a sea creature that has a clear soft body and can sting you.

jellyfish in American English
any of various free-swimming, mostly marine cnidarians (esp. class Scyphozoa) with a body made up largely of jellylike substance and shaped like an umbrella: it has long, hanging tentacles with stinging cells on them
noun: any of various marine coelenterates of a soft, gelatinous structure, esp. one with an umbrellalike body and long, trailing tentacles; medusa

jellyfish in British English
noun: any marine medusoid coelenterate of the class Scyphozoa, having a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body with trailing tentacles

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