Associations to the word «Jellyfish»

Wiktionary

JELLYFISH, noun. An almost transparent aquatic animal; any one of the acalephs, especially one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance.
JELLYFISH, noun. A cnidarian, a member of the phylum Cnidaria.
JELLYFISH, noun. A scyphozoan, a member of the class Scyphozoa (the true jellies).
JELLYFISH, noun. A ctenophore, a member of the phylum Ctenophora (the comb jellies).
JELLYFISH BABY, noun. A still-born infant resulting from radiation poisoning
JELLYFISH TREE, noun. A rare tree, Medusagyne oppositifolia, indigenous to the island of Mahé in the Seychelles.

Dictionary definition

JELLYFISH, noun. Large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles.
JELLYFISH, noun. Any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats