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jellyfish

[jel-ee-fish] / ˈdʒɛl iˌfɪʃ /








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Runners up in the competition included videos of a roundworm encountering a single-celled organism and microscopic jellyfish larvae suspended in droplets of water.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

At first, postdoctoral researcher Olívia Soares Pereira thought the vehicle had come across a jellyfish.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

Measures have been implemented to try to prevent jellyfish infiltration, including a partnership with fishermen who capture and release them further offshore, according to French outlet Ici.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

A collaged print by Liu Shiyuan presents a dizzying array of images—fruit, bees, jellyfish, shrouded figures, fabric samples—that is more disorienting than anything else.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

I think about my grandfather and the jellyfish and feel a little jealous.

From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm

These showed body plans different from any animals alive today, although some seem to be related to worms and jellyfishes.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2018

“We need to clearly acknowledge that jellyfishes and other gelatinous organisms may be a regular prey for a variety of marine predators.”

From National Geographic Sep. 15, 2017

When jellyfishes move, their tissue alternates between these states of tautness and gooeyness.

From Scientific American Jun. 24, 2015

Expect giraffes and zebras, but also Komodo dragons, jellyfishes and newts for a dash of originality.

From The Guardian Feb. 1, 2013

Brightly colored starfishes, beautiful sea-urchins, strange stationary ascidians, and flower-like sea-anemones, quaint sea-horses, and filmy, fragile jellyfishes and their multiform kin—all seem novel and wonderful as one sees them in their native element.

From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Henry Smith Williams




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