scyphozoan

noun

any of various usually free-swimming marine coelenterates having a gelatinous medusoid stage as the dominant phase of its life cycle

Roots

skyphosscypho- · Greek · cup, drinking vessel zoonzo- · Greek · animal anus-an · Latin · pertaining to

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