SCYPHOZOAN (scyphozoa)

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Irregular inflected form: scyphozoa   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does scyphozoan mean? 

• SCYPHOZOAN (noun)
  The noun SCYPHOZOAN has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SCYPHOZOAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCYPHOZOAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("scyphozoan" is a kind of...):

cnidarian; coelenterate (radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms)

Holonyms ("scyphozoan" is a member of...):

class Scyphozoa; Scyphozoa (coelenterates in which the polyp stage is absent or at least inconspicuous: jellyfishes)