jellyfish

jellyfish Definition

jelly·fish (-fis̸h′)

noun pl. -·fish′, -·fish′es

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
Informal a weak-willed person

jellyfish Synonyms

medusa, coelenterate, ctenophore, hydrozoan, scyphozoan; see also fish.

jellyfish Usage Examples

Converse of subject

Converse of object

strand: She tells us how she was afraid of the stranded jellyfish.
see: On your right you see a small round jellyfish floating upwards past you.
eat: My Chinese boyfriend made me eat jellyfish Oh the joys of going for Dim Sum!
include: Other potential hazards include jellyfish, Force 6 winds and waves around two meters high.
know: Did you know that jellyfish were on the planet before dinosaurs?

Adjective modifier

pelagic: I was participating in an English Nature drop-down video survey and found dense shoals of this beautiful pelagic jellyfish.
tiny: A tiny jellyfish, barely the size of a 10 pence piece slowly pulses past, about six inches from my mask.
large: Comment by Steve Barker 27 July 2001 There was an Evening Argus report of a large jellyfish off Worthing.
true: The Hydrozoa differ from true jellyfish not only in size.
small: On your right you see a small round jellyfish floating upwards past you.
poisonous: Watch out for dangerous sea creatures like sharks and poisonous jellyfish - some are deadly.

Modifies a noun

sting: Q. I had a really painful jellyfish sting within seconds of entering the sea in Malta last week.
gene: The University of Missouri team inserted jellyfish genes into fetal pig cells grown in the laboratory.
bloom: They should be able to tell you if there are any jellyfish blooms or a sudden influx of these creatures locally.

Noun used with modifier

octopus: Report from Stella Turk 17 July 2002 Rhizostoma octopus jellyfish in Torquay harbor, Devon.
freshwater: This membrane confuses me, because I hear that there is no fertilization membrane in Hydrozoa, to which freshwater jellyfish belongs.
moon: There was lots of plankton and moon jellyfish, and one diver pair had seen a hammerhead here earlier in the day.
box: A " stinger " suit would be recommended for divers to ward off box jellyfish.
killer: They dance on the beach and are taken away by Slither and the killer jellyfish.

jellyfish Quotes

In this matter of shimmering into rooms the chappie is rummy toa degree He moves from point to point with as little uproar as a jellyfish.

—Plum

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