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jellyfish
1. Substantiv:
2. [1] Zoologie: die Qualle: geleeartiges Meerestier, mit Tentakeln
3. [2] übertragen, umgangssprachlich und abwertend, vor allem im amerikanischen Englisch: als Schimpfwort schwache, feige Person
[1] "You know the other morning, when you and Jack and I bathed before breakfast, you got stung on your arm by a jellyfish, and the water then was unruffled."
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jellyfish
1. subst. An almost transparent aquatic animal; any one of the acalephs, especially one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance.
2. subst.          A cnidarian, a member of the phylum Cnidaria.
3. subst.         # A scyphozoan, a member of the class Scyphozoa (the true jellies).
4. subst.          A ctenophore, a member of the phylum Ctenophora (the comb jellies).
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1. jellyfish

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The charts contain instructions on how to identify the jellyfish species.  Fish farms in Scotland and Shetland have lost stocks of mature salmon because the cages in which the fish live have become so clogged with jellyfish that thousands of salmon have died from lack of oxygen.  Each year turtles up to two metres long cruise British coasts hunting their main food supply, jellyfish, which sometimes arrive in large swarms.

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