jellyfish
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- noun
- /ˈdʒɛliˌfɪʃ/
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medusa
- At the beach, I saw a large jellyfish floating slowly in the water.
- jellyfish swarms
- box jellyfish
- thimble jellyfish
So I'm swimming, avoiding jellyfish and now orcas.
- So I'm swimming, avoiding jellyfish and now orcas.
- Some people have a tin ear, as phosphorus glows in jellyfish at night.
- And they took this GFP protein out of what, jellyfish.
- So suddenly you'll see, you know, seaweed or you'll see a jellyfish.
- It's going from a jellyfish to a chimpanzee or something.
Examples
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Over the past two decades, jellyfish have begun to overwhelm our oceans.
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First jellyfish of the evening.
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No, it's just water all over the jellyfish next to your foot.
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You caught the jellyfish in the net!
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You wanna look like a giant jellyfish on the beach?
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I got stung by a jellyfish at the beach before.
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She just got stung by a hundred jellyfish!
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I could sit on the bow, like Tilly, and count jellyfish gliding under us.
Fiction book (1991) -
The ocean was rough, and as the waves rose, you could see clear jellyfish and green popping seaweed.
Fiction book (1999) -
Spectacular past live exhibits have included the large-scale jellyfish exhibit and the living kelp forest.
Academic text (2002)
How Dangerous
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Jellyfish is an easy picture: it is made of jelly, meaning 'a soft, wobbly food', and fish, meaning 'an animal that lives in water'. So the name tells you it is a soft, jelly-like sea creature that moves like a fish but is not a true fish.