jellyfishes

noun

any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans

large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles

Roots

gelojelly- · Latin · freeze, congeal fisk-fish · Old Norse · fish

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