jellyfishes

Variant of jellyfish

jellyfish definition

jelly·fish (-fis̸h′)

noun pl. jellyfish -·fish′, jellyfishes -·fish′es

  1. 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
  2. Informal a weak-willed person

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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