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Scyphozoan

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Noun

1. scyphozoan

any of various usually free-swimming marine coelenterates having a gelatinous medusoid stage as the dominant phase of its life cycle

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Scyphozoan

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noun
1. 
any marine medusoid coelenterate of the class Scyphozoa; a jellyfish
adjective
2. 
of, relating to, or belonging to the Scyphozoa

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Scyphozoan

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noun
any of a class (Scyphozoa) of sea cnidarians, consisting of jellyfishes lacking a velum

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Scyphozoan

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n.
Any of various marine cnidarians of the class Scyphozoa, which includes most of the jellyfishes, characterized by the absence of a polyp stage or by a polyp that is extremely small.

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