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• It got trapped in the fishing net because it's a big stupid jellyfish!From the entry stupid
• Jellyfish are composed of more than 90% water and most of their umbrella mass is made up of gelatinous material.From the entry umbrella
• An unarmed jellyfish would never capture prey.From the entry unarmed
• The jellyfish was rising up from the water, but it wasn't a jellyfish.2015, Angie Sage, Araminta Spook: Skeleton Island. From the entry gulpy
• Nettlers are passive stingers.They include stinging plants, some are appropriately called nettles, jellyfish and some caterpillars.1992, F. Tom Turpin, The Insect Appreciation Digest, page 70. From the entry nettler
• The “cabbagehead” (Stomolophus meleagris), like other jellyfish, drifts on the ocean currents that ceaselessly cross the globe.1984, Lawrence S. Earley, Wildlife in North Carolina, page 22. From the entry cabbagehead
• Madam, I'm as gentle as a jellyfish, and peaceful to a fault.1904, Rex Ellingwood Beach, “Pardners”, in Pardners. From the entry to a fault
• The sting of this siphonophore (it is not technically a jellyfish, but they are closely related) is especially painful.2024 August 24, Stephen Burgen, “Resorts on Spain’s Costa Brava struggle with invasion of jellyfish as seas warm”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry siphonophore
• Smacks of jellyfish are like genderless gangs.2017, Heather Davis, editor, Desire Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada, McGill-Queen's University Press, page 61. From the entry smack
• All jellyfish, be they rowers or jetters, use the same basic muscular system, and operate it in a broadly similar fashion.2016, Matt Wilkinson, Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements. From the entry jetter
• Some narcomedusae develop as parasitic stolons in or on other jellyfish species; young medusae are budded from these stolons.2016, Lisa-Ann Gershwin, “Battering ram jellies”, in Jellyfish: A Natural History, page 84. From the entry narcomedusa
• Recently antibutyrylcholinestrasic activity was detected in the crude venom extracted from the tentacle material of the Mediterranean jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca .2015 June 18, Mahdokht Jouiaei et al., “Ancient Venom Systems: A Review on Cnidaria Toxins”, in Toxins, volume 7, →DOI. From the entry antibutyrylcholinestrasic
• The most common jellyfish in Georgia waters is the cabbagehead.2003, David Bryant, George Davidson, Georgia's Amazing Coast. From the entry cabbagehead
• The modern cry of "more liberty and less creed" is a degeneration from a vertebrate to a jellyfish.1913, B. H. Carrol, An Interpretation of the English Bible. From the entry degeneration
• The team investigating the jellyfish grenades found that similar stimuli could provoke Cassiopea to release Cassiosome grenades from some tiny spoon-shaped structures on their arms.2020 June 1, Lauren Sara McKee, “The upside-down jellyfish stings you with mucus grenades”, in Massive Science. From the entry cassiosome
• "Strobilation is like: All right, the male jellyfish releases his sperm into the water and the female jellyfish, her eggs catch them, right?2007 September 16, Saki Knafo, quoting Neil Allicock, “My Family Has High Hopes for Me Because They Know I’m Going to Do Great Things”, in…. From the entry strobilation
• Most dendronotaceans do, however, feed on cnidarians, ranging from hydroids to sea anemones, sea whips, and sea pens, and scyphistomas of scyphozoan jellyfishes.1990, Eugene N. Kozloff, Invertebrates, page 411. From the entry dendronotacean
• Union leaders, encouraged by such jellyfish resistance, are lobbying to get the senate bill diluted down to pattycake dimensions through conference committee compromise.1959 May 15, “Abuse of equal justice”, in Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman, page 28. From the entry creampuff piece
• This species may well be termed the "little brown brother" of the more widely known C. arctica, or sea blubber, the largest jellyfish in existence.1923, William Crowder, Dwellers of the Sea and Shore. From the entry sea blubber
• The body of the comb-jelly is soft like that of the jellyfish, but the plan of structure and the organs are somewhat different.1906, Henry R. Linville, Henry A. Kelly, A Text-Book in General Zoölogy, Ginn, page 271. From the entry comb-jelly
• This is the largest jellyfish known.1903, Augusta Foote Arnold, The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide: A Guide to the Study of the Seaweeds and the Lower Animal Life Found Between…. From the entry sea blubber
• Fortunately, there are only a few jellyfish in the North Sea which are painfully nettlers, but you should always be careful not to touch unknown cnidarians.2020, Sven Gehrmann, Fire! In the Wadden Sea, page 40. From the entry nettler
• Comb jellies lack the most impressive 'technology' of jellyfish - the nematocyst stinging apparatus which is one of the most deadly weapons and fastest cellular processes in nature.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 317. From the entry technology
• The common jellyfish along the Texas coast are the lion's mane (Cyanea capillata), the sea nettle (Chrysaora quinquecirrha), moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita), and cabbage head jellyfish (Stomolophus meleagris).2011, John Whorff, Kayaking the Texas Coast, page 11. From the entry cabbage head
• Ben Cropp, aided by his wife Lynn, tests the effectiveness of metho and vinegar against box jellyfish stings (above); see Ben′s foreword for details of the experiment.1985, Living Australia, photograph caption, Dangerous Australians: The Complete Guide to Australia's Most Deadly Creatures, page 61. From the entry metho
• On December 2, a small stone crab on the south jetty was seen eating a cabbage-head jellyfish, Stomolophus meleagris Agassiz, which had been stranded on the rocks by the tide.1965, Gulf Research Reports, page 296. From the entry cabbage-head

Meaning of jellyfish

1. noun An almost transparent aquatic animal; any one of the acalephs, especially one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance.
2. noun Any of various species of cnidarians in the subphylum Medusozoa, including box jellyfish (class Cubozoa), true jellyfish (class Scyphozoa), stalked jellyfish (class Staurozoa), and certain hydrozoans.
3. noun The medusa phase of these animals rather than a younger life stage.

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How do you use jellyfish in a sentence?

Jellyfish is used as a noun. For example: “It got trapped in the fishing net because it's a big stupid jellyfish!”

What is a short sentence with jellyfish?

“This is the largest jellyfish known.”

What does jellyfish mean?

Jellyfish means an almost transparent aquatic animal; any one of the acalephs, especially one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance.