Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: jellyfish
IPA transcription: [dʒ'ɛlif,ɪʃ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: jellyfish
    Meaning: any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans
  • Synonyms: Portuguese_man-of-war, man-of-war, jellyfish
    Meaning: large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles
Usage examples
  • I incline, then, to think that the objects that fell at Bath were neither jellyfish nor masses of frog spawn, but something of a larval kind--
  • "You can't put a backbone into a jellyfish by jest showin' him the bone--an' that's what his aunt has made him--a flappy, transparallel jellyfish.