jellyfish
Pluraljellyfish, jellyfishes
- 1A soft, see-through sea animal with a body like jelly and no bones.
Like a clear, wobbly lump of jelly floating in the sea.
A large jellyfish drifted past the swimmers near the shore.
Fishermen hauled up a huge jellyfish tangled in their net.
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- 2A soft sea animal that stings, with an umbrella-shaped body and long trailing tentacles.
Like a see-through umbrella that floats and can sting.
A jellyfish brushed her leg and left a red, stinging mark.
The jellyfish opened and closed its bell to push itself forward.
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- 3A clear sea animal that swims using rows of tiny beating combs along its body.
Like a clear blob that rows itself along with tiny moving hairs.
This jellyfish drifts through the water on shimmering rows of tiny beating combs.
Unlike its stinging relatives, that jellyfish catches prey with sticky cells instead of venom.
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- 4The grown-up, free-swimming stage of the sea animal, not its younger early stage.
Like a butterfly that comes after the caterpillar stage.
After budding from the polyp colony, each tiny jellyfish swims off to grow into a mature bell.
The aquarium displays the polyps separately from the free-swimming jellyfish they eventually produce.
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- 5A sudoku trick where a digit fits in only four rows and four columns, letting you cross it out elsewhere.
She cracked the hardest puzzle by spotting a jellyfish across four columns.
Once you find a jellyfish, you can rule that digit out of every other cell in those columns.
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Origin
From jelly + fish. A jellyfish is a water animal that looks like jelly.