Jellyfish is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for JELLYFISH in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a marine coelenterate with jellylike body
• a free-swimming marine coelenterate with a jelly-like bell- or saucer-shaped body that is typically transparent and has stinging tentacles around the edge.
• a feeble person.
• small jelly-like sea animal
• Any one of the acalephs, esp. one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance. See Medusa.
• 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
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a free-swimming marine coelenterate that is the sexually reproducing form of a hydrozoan or scyphozoan and has a nearly transparent saucer-shaped body and extensible marginal tentacles studded with stinging cells; siphonophore; ctenophore

Words related to JELLYFISH

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Words that contain JELLYFISH

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How to use JELLYFISH in a sentence

• It is slimy, and rather firm, not so soft and yielding as the Jelly-fish.
• Or all the queer children of Nature which live in the sea, the Jelly-fish is one of the queerest.
• He went home, and sent men with wagons to be loaded with the Jelly-fish.
• This was done, and the Jelly-fish were spread over the soil.
• The mouth-tube opens under the body, as can be seen by turning the Jelly-fish on its back, and moving the lobes of jelly aside.
• You see now how this innocent-looking Jelly-fish gets its food.
• Sometimes there are numbers of large brownish Jelly-fish in the sea, or washed up on the shore.
• You may remember that we called the Anemone a cousin of the Jelly-fish, for they both belong to the same lowly division of the Animal Kingdom.
• It seemed hopeless to go on trying to steam up such a human jellyfish.
• The water was deep and dark quite close to the beautiful shore, and the girls could not help marvelling at the monsters of jelly-fish they saw far down in its depths.
• Caught two or three small insects, somewhat resembling a bug, of a dirty brick colour and several minute species of Diphyes and small jellyfish.
• One day we shall be able to discuss it peaceably, but at present this brain is like some limp jellyfish floating in the sea.
• In the pool itself a beautiful lavender-colored jelly-fish was floating about, and just beyond lay a star-fish clinging to a bunch of seaweed.
• When the Duke of Argyll described Sir George Trevelyan as a jelly-fish, he made a comparison which, from my personal experience, I should call particularly apt.
• Among his first discoveries, it came to him with a thrill that a certain species of jellyfish bears a very close resemblance to the human embryo at a certain stage.
• Stellato gave up his scalping-knife, flopped feebly upon a chair, and again became a transparent jelly-fish of philosophy and water.
• All the intermediate forms between man and the original jelly-fish, which according to Haeckel and Vogt was his ancestor, have disappeared.
• Here and there monster jelly-fish glistened in the sun.
• They look to me something like jelly-fish about the size of whales, only they have eyes and mouths.
• The substance composing their bodies appeared to be not unlike that of a terrestrial jelly-fish, but much denser.
• And in its clear, silent waters, a few days, in the culmination of the heat, bring forth translucent living creatures, many-shaped jelly-fish, coloured like mother-of-pearl.
• Ideas have a way of splitting off and multiplying themselves like jellyfish do in the natural history, if they are in favorable environment.
• MYTHS OF JAPAN THE JELLYFISH AND THE MONKEY ADAPTED BY YEI THEODORA OZAKI Long, long ago, in old Japan, the Kingdom of the Sea was governed by a wonderful King.
• In those ancient days the jellyfish had four legs and a hard shell like a tortoise.
• Thus they went along, the jellyfish skimming through the waves with the monkey sitting on his back.
• Then the jellyfish, seeing how anxious the monkey looked, was sorry for him, and told everything.
• Thus persuaded, the jellyfish turned his course towards the Monkey Island once more.
• Meanwhile the Dragon King, the doctor, the chief steward, and all the servants were waiting impatiently for the return of the jellyfish.
• Now the day of reckoning had come for the jellyfish.
• The poor jellyfish, humiliated and horrified beyond all words, cried out for pardon.

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