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jellyfish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun jellyfish has 2 senses
- jellyfish(n = noun.animal) man-of-war, portuguese man-of-war - large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles; Array is a kind of siphonophore
- jellyfish(n = noun.animal) Array - any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans; Array is a member of cnidaria, coelenterata, phylum cnidaria, phylum coelenterata
is a member of genus physalia, physalia
is a kind of cnidarian, coelenterate
has particulars: aegina, chrysaora quinquecirrha
OXFORD DICTIONARY
jellyfish, n. (pl. usu. same)
1 a marine coelenterate of the class Scyphozoa having an umbrella-shaped jelly-like body and stinging tentacles.
2 colloq. a feeble person.
1 a marine coelenterate of the class Scyphozoa having an umbrella-shaped jelly-like body and stinging tentacles.
2 colloq. a feeble person.
THESAURUS
jellyfish
Chilopoda, Chordata, Echiuroidea, Ectoprocta, Entoprocta, Milquetoast, Monoplacophora, Nemertinea, Phoronidea, baby, big baby, chicken, chicken liver, coward, crybaby, doormat, dull tool, fence-sitter, fraid-cat, fraidy-cat, funk, funker, gutless wonder, invertebrate, lightweight, lily liver, meek soul, milksop, mollycoddle, mouse, mugwump, namby-pamby, nebbish, nonentity, pansy, pantywaist, pushover, sad sack, scaredy-cat, shilly-shally, sissy, softling, softy, sop, waverer, weak sister, weakling, white feather, white liver, wobbler
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