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jellyfishes
Variant of jellyfish
jellyfish
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jelly·fish (-fis̸h′)
noun pl. jellyfish -·fish′, jellyfishes -·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
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