'Jellyfish' definitions:
Definition of 'jellyfish'
(from WordNet)
noun
Large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles [syn: Portuguese man-of-war, man-of-war, jellyfish]
noun
Any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans
Definition of 'Jellyfish'
From: GCIDE
- Jellyfish \Jel"ly*fish`\, n. (Zool.) Any one of the acalephs, esp. one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance. See Medusa and acaleph. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'jellyfish'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- baby,
- big baby,
- chicken,
- chicken liver,
- Chilopoda,
- Chordata,
- coward,
- crybaby,
- doormat,
- dull tool,
- Echiuroidea,
- Ectoprocta,
- Entoprocta,
- fence-sitter,
- fraid-cat,
- fraidy-cat,
- funk,
- funker,
- gutless wonder,
- invertebrate,
- lightweight,
- lily liver,
- meek soul,
- milksop,
- Milquetoast,
- mollycoddle,
- Monoplacophora,
- mouse,
- mugwump,
- namby-pamby,
- nebbish,
- Nemertinea,
- nonentity,
- pansy,
- pantywaist,
- Phoronidea,
- pushover,
- sad sack,
- scaredy-cat,
- shilly-shally,
- sissy,
- softling,
- softy,
- sop,
- waverer,
- weak sister,
- weakling,
- white feather,
- white liver,
- wobbler