Scyphistoma
//saɪˈfɪstəmə// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An individual cell in a stage of the life cycle of a true jellyfish (class Scyphozoa), a colony of such cells, when it resembles a polyp and breeds asexually by strobilation.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σκύφος (skúphos, “cup”) + στόμα (stóma, “mouth”).
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