Hypertext Webster Gateway: "jellyfish"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Jellyfish \Jel"ly*fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
Any one of the acalephs, esp. one of the larger species,
having a jellylike appearance. See {Medusa}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

jellyfish
n 1: large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging
tentacles [syn: {Portuguese man-of-war}, {man-of-war}]
2: any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming
coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive
forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans [syn: {medusa}, {medusan}]


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