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    jellyfish


    1. She could have been a deep-sea jellyfish


    2. The doctors fought for two hours but in the end Karen had died, her skin a mass of red welts and blackened patches from the box jellyfish stings


    3. What if there were jellyfish out there? At the thought Dawn turned and fled up the beach to the dunes


    4. jellyfish that had washed up on a beach waiting for inevitable slap of a child’s spade


    5. Miles in front of the ship there is a huge twenty-foot glowing jellyfish with a yellow body floating towards a collective of thirty of them to form a glowing 400-foot circular congregation of connected jellyfish


    6. There are medium-sized squids and schools of three foot round bottle top jellyfish that look like little flying saucers


    7. The jellyfish have gaseous helium in their jelly skin and their tentacles are hidden in their body


    8. The jellyfish quickly move in on their prey


    9. The school of jellyfish in the clouds has several ingested fish that can be seen being digested from the outside


    10. Twenty-five of the bloated jellyfish slowly merge to form a collective

    11. A half dozen sharks come from below and charge at the jellyfish


    12. They ram right through the jellyfish still trying to connect to each other


    13. The sharks try to eat the jellyfish


    14. The jellyfish are slowly being eaten up like Pac-Man eating the dots


    15. A massive jellyfish drifts by on the screen, its tentacles a glowing trail disappearing into the ink


    16. His skin is translucent closely alike with that of a jellyfish


    17. Another evolving marine animal, the jellyfish, had more of the complicated systems


    18. Remember that the box jellyfish is common on trop-


    19. The back of the small torso careened into more jellyfish tendrils, waves of forgotten hair


    20. It was a beautiful day and we set off with the skipper at the helm and me in the stern pointing out passing pelicans and enormous blobby jellyfish to the littlies

    21. Mesmerized by the new sensation, and by the stunning shapes and size and textures and configurations and colors of corals and sponges and urchins and cuttlefish and squid and bioluminescent jellyfish and unidentified floating and swimming and pulsating life all around him, he momentarily forgot about the boat


    22. "Sea grape is a kind of small jellyfish," explained the stranger


    23. He picked up a tall green bottle that was full of sea grape jellyfish wine and hurled it hard at the Guestmaster, who flung up a hand as if to protect himself


    24. The visible sign of this was that the bottle suddenly completed the last part of its parabola and burst against the side of the Guestmaster's head, showering the guards with glass and jellyfish wine


    25. Polyps and echinoderms abounded on the seafloor: various isis coral, cornularian coral living in isolation, tufts of virginal genus Oculina formerly known by the name "white coral," prickly fungus coral in the shape of mushrooms, sea anemone holding on by their muscular disks, providing a literal flowerbed adorned by jellyfish from the genus Porpita wearing collars of azure tentacles, and starfish that spangled the sand, including veinlike feather stars from the genus Asterophyton that were like fine lace embroidered by the hands of water nymphs, their festoons


    26. But we had to keep walking, and we went forward while overhead there scudded schools of Portuguese men–of–war that let their ultramarine tentacles drift in their wakes, medusas whose milky white or dainty pink parasols were festooned with azure tassels and shaded us from the sun's rays, plus jellyfish of the species Pelagia panopyra that, in the dark, would have strewn our path with phosphorescent glimmers!


    27. Among other specimens in these two branches, I noted some windowpane oysters with thin valves of unequal size, a type of ostracod unique to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, then orange–hued lucina with circular shells, awl–shaped auger shells, some of those Persian murex snails that supply the Nautilus with such wonderful dye, spiky periwinkles fifteen centimeters long that rose under the waves like hands ready to grab you, turban snails with shells made of horn and bristling all over with spines, lamp shells, edible duck clams that feed the Hindu marketplace, subtly luminous jellyfish of the species Pelagia panopyra, and finally some wonderful Oculina flabelliforma, magnificent sea fans that fashion one of the most luxuriant tree forms in this ocean


    28. Other zoophytes swarming near the sponges consisted chiefly of a very elegant species of jellyfish; mollusks were represented by varieties of squid that, according to Professor Orbigny, are unique to the Red Sea; and reptiles by virgata turtles belonging to the genus Chelonia , which furnished our table with a dainty but wholesome


    29. On the rocky, volcanic seafloor, there bloomed quite a collection of moving flora: sponges, sea cucumbers, jellyfish called sea gooseberries that were adorned with reddish tendrils and gave off a subtle phosphorescence, members of the genus Beroe that are commonly known by the name melon jellyfish and are bathed in the shimmer of the whole solar spectrum, free–swimming crinoids one meter wide that reddened the waters with their crimson hue, treelike basket stars of the greatest beauty, sea fans from the genus Pavonacea with long stems, numerous edible sea urchins of various species, plus green sea anemones with a grayish trunk and a brown disk lost beneath the olive–colored tresses of their tentacles


    30. Jellyfish, microscopic crustaceans, and sea–pen coral lit it faintly with their phosphorescent glimmers

    31. I also noted long, whitish strings of salps, a type of mollusk found in clusters, and some jellyfish of large size that swayed in the eddies of the billows


    32. By then, crowded with jellyfish, squid, and other devilfish, the oceans will have become huge centers of infection, because their waves will no longer possess "these huge stomachs that God has entrusted with scouring the surface of the sea


    33. There once more, through the panels opening into these Caribbean waters ten meters below the surface of the waves, I found so many fascinating exhibits to describe in my daily notes! Among other zoophytes there were Portuguese men–of–war known by the name Physalia pelagica, like big, oblong bladders with a pearly sheen, spreading their membranes to the wind, letting their blue tentacles drift like silken threads; to the eye delightful jellyfish, to the touch actual nettles that ooze a corrosive liquid


    34. Where are all the ants? And the bees and the little white butterflies we used to see everywhere? And what about the jellyfish and the shooting stars? Opening my journal I glanced at a few drawings


    35. there were so many jellyfish in this part of the


    36. the swarm of jellyfish disappeared as mysteriously as it had arrived


    37. I remember a jellyfish stinging my belly


    38. This was a great pudding, an emperor jellyfish, a monstrous heap of sexual gelatin from the exterior of which, on occasion, noxious gases escaped with rubbery sounds; great lips sibilating


    39. You feed yourself on great slakes of cod and minnow, on rivers of jellyfish, and you rise slow through the autumn months, through September when the fogs started, through October with more fog and the horn still calling you on, and then, late in November, after pressurizing yourself day by day, a few feet higher every hour, you are near the surface and still alive


    40. It was when the jellyfish called you by name…

    41. ‘Nothin’,’ repeated Carmody, harshly, ‘in that jar but a bunch of old jellyfish from Sea Cove, a-rottin’ and stinkin’ fit to whelp!’


    42. It was when the jellyfish called you by name


    43. "Nothin'," repeated Carmody, harshly, "in that jar but a hunch of old jellyfish from Sea Cove, a rottin' and stinkin' fit to whelp!"


    44. Some jellyfish are not venomous but beware—size is not an indication of potency! If stung do NOT pull the tentacles off or wipe away the slime with your hand—you will only get stung more


    45. -Portuguese-man-of-war, looks like a jellyfish but is actually a colony of polyps


    46. Treat as for jellyfish


    47. At four o’clock on October 27 Doc finished bottling the last of a lot of jellyfish


    48. Velella: Velella velella, commonly known as By-the-Wind Sailor or Purple Sail, is a jellyfish that resembles a miniature Portuguese mano’-war


    49. Usually blue in color, these jellyfish travel by means of a small stiff sail that catches the wind


    50. The red sun touched the horizon and spread out like a jellyfish, and the sky above it seemed much brighter and more alive than it had been

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    Synonyms for "jellyfish"

    jellyfish man-of-war portuguese man-of-war sea creature

    "jellyfish" definitions

    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