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Any one of the acalephs, esp. one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance. See Medusa.

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  1. n. Any one of the acalephs, esp. one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance. See Medusa.
  2. n. large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles
  3. n. any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans
  4. Any one of the acalephs, esp. one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance. See Medusa.
  5. Any one of the acalephs, esp. one of the larger species, havinga jellylike appearance. See Medusa.
  6. n:100 n. any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans