jellyfish
pronunciation
How to pronounce jellyfish in British English:
UK [ˈdʒelifɪʃ]
How to pronounce jellyfish in American English:
US [ˈdʒelifɪʃ]
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- Noun:
- large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles
- any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans
Word Origin
- jellyfish (n.)
- popular name of the medusa and similar sea-creatures, 1796, from jelly (n.) + fish (n.). Earlier it had been used of a type of actual fish (1707).
Example
- 1. We are proud to introduce : the immortal jellyfish .
- 2. They are also extremely effective at repelling insects and jellyfish .
- 3. Jellyfish rings , china . A salty rubber band type appetizer .
- 4. A lion 's mane jellyfish nestled in a kelp frond .
- 5. Other jellyfish just drift and hope .