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Meanings of jellyfish in English
Large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles.
Synonyms
Examples for "medusa"
Examples for "medusa"
1
A broad, mottled band had appeared along the side of the medusa.
2
He could no longer see the medusa; once more it was directly overhead.
3
The semi-transparent globules appeared to consist of an animal of the medusa kind.
4
And the medusa, no longer falling, began to roll back toward the horizontal.
5
Then he noticed that the medusa's tactics seemed to be having some effect.
1
Sudden breezes lifted the woman's hair in medusan strands.
2
It was the look of a cornered animal, something with fangs and claws and wild medusan hair.
3
Guinevere, about forty, was exceedingly beautiful, in spite of wearing her long blond hair in medusan cascades of cornrows, which Roy disliked.
4
Medusan civilization is based on autonomous bronze age city-states, although significant nomad populations exist.
5
An unstable Medusan whose apparent suicide was in fact murder.
Usage of jellyfish in English
1
Like the jellyfish that I saw at sea, Fallion thought, radiating light.
2
Sharks and jellyfish aren't bad; they're simply doing what nature intended, existing.
3
Nobody else saw any jellyfish, nobody else got stung, Mr McKenzie said.
4
It helps salve the pain, with jellyfish stings and with sea urchins.
5
To improve these circumstances, a new jellyfish valve was designed and manufactured.
6
But the very softness had a kind of jellyfish sting in it.
7
The men at this station survive by virtue of their jellyfish quality.
8
When we need protest and backbone, we get mealy-mouthed responses and jellyfish.
9
He regularly front-crawls his way through blooms of jellyfish on his journey.
10
One of China's largest jellyfish aquariums has opened in Fushun, north-east China.
11
Once, in a moment of fancy, he had thought of Jovian jellyfish.
12
There is even a rare species of jellyfish named in her honour.
13
It is like the common jellyfish but without the four pink rings.
14
We saw this striking blue jellyfish on the shore in Clew Bay.
15
Man-made flying jellyfish and robotic pack mules are all well and good.
16
Expect to see everything from sharks and stingrays to Nemo and jellyfish.
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Jellyfish through the time
Jellyfish across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common