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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any true jellyfish of the class Scyphozoa.
2. 2
   any of various usually free-swimming marine coelenterates having a gelatinous medusoid stage as the dominant phase of its life cycle wordnet

Etymology

Scyphozoa + -an

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