Definition of jellyfish in English:
jellyfish
nounPlural jellyfishesˈdʒɛlɪfɪʃˈdʒɛliˌfɪʃ
1A free-swimming marine coelenterate with a gelatinous bell- or saucer-shaped body that is typically transparent and has stinging tentacles around the edge.
Classes Scyphozoa and Cubozoa
Example sentencesExamples
- Mr Jordan brushed against the tiny yet extremely poisonous jellyfish swimming near Hamilton Island in northern Queensland on Wednesday.
- If you should get stung by a box jellyfish, you won't get off lightly.
- Then there's the famous glow-in-the-dark rabbit, created by an artist using a fluorescent jellyfish gene.
- The whole thing looked very organic, something like a giant jellyfish.
- Thousands of giant jellyfish with 30 foot stinging tentacles have invaded the seas around Scotland.
- As we surfaced, a lone lion's mane jellyfish pulsed.
- Lynn jumped as a jellyfish swam by her.
- Man-eating saltwater crocodiles lurk in nearby estuaries along with the deadly box jellyfish, the most poisonous creature on earth.
- When the mice were born, they carried the jellyfish gene in their own genes.
- Plastic bags when filled with water resemble jellyfish, the turtle's staple diet.
- Like jellyfish, Medusa can sting an enemy with its tentacles.
- The pink jellyfish grow to three feet in diameter and their tentacles can reach 70 feet.
- You will also be well aware of the unusually large numbers of jellyfish in the sea at this time.
- The camera passes through a barrage of deadly jellyfish, emerging unscathed on the other side.
- The official season of the dreaded stinging jellyfish has begun.
- Hopefully we won't be maimed by saltwater crocodiles, eaten by sharks, or stung by poisonous jellyfish.
- Certain Pacific jellyfish are much more dangerous, but they are limited to the waters around Australia.
- Water sports are popular in the Persian Gulf, although jellyfish prevent swimming there.
- A giant monster resembling a giant jellyfish emerged from the lava pool and wrapped its tentacles around Lupus.
- When the females are bigger than 7 cm they never find jellyfish tentacles.
2informal A feeble person.
Example sentencesExamples
- His father is a spineless jellyfish who lets his wife rule with an iron fist.
- Frankie was a spineless jellyfish that didn't deserve to make money from Tan.
- It's a tragedy regardless of how it happened and people like you who lecture after an accident are the lowest form of weak willed spineless jellyfish.
- I suppose you have no qualms about being spineless jellyfish - so long as you win elections - right?