jellyfish

See also: jelly-fish and jelly fish

English

a sea nettle, a type of jellyfish

Etymology

From jelly +‎ fish.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛliˌfɪʃ/
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Noun

jellyfish (countable and uncountable, plural jellyfish or jellyfishes)

An almost transparent aquatic animal; any one of the acalephs, especially one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance.
Synonym: jelly
1. A cnidarian, a member of the phylum Cnidaria.
  1. A scyphozoan, a member of the class Scyphozoa (the true jellies).
2. A ctenophore, a member of the phylum Ctenophora (the comb jellies).
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Derived terms

alarm jellyfish (Atolla wyvillei)
Atolla jellyfish (Atolla wyvillei)
barrel jellyfish (Rhizostoma pulmo)
blubber jellyfish (Catostylus mosaicus)
blue blubber jellyfish (Catostylus mosaicus)
blue bottle jellyfish (Physalia physalis)
box jellyfish (class Cubozoa)
cabbagehead jellyfish (Stomolophus meleagris)
cannonball jellyfish (Stomolophus meleagris)
common jellyfish (Aurelia aurita)
compound jellyfish (order Siphonophora)
crown jellyfish (order Coronatae)
flame jellyfish (Rhopilema esculentum)
fried-egg jellyfish (Cotylorhiza tuberculata, Phacellophora camtschatica)
giant jellyfish (Cyanea spp.)
helmet jellyfish (Periphylla periphylla)
immortal jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii)
Irukandji jellyfish (Carukia barnesi, Malo spp.)
jellyfish itch (caused by Linuche unguiculata)
jellyfish baby
jellyfish galaxy
jellyfish tree
jellyfishy
lion's mane jellyfish (Cyanea spp.)
moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita)
mushroom jellyfish (Rhopilema verrilli)
Nomura's jellyfish (Nemopilema nomurai)
purple-striped jellyfish (Pelagia spp.)
stalked jellyfish (class Staurozoa)
thimble jellyfish (Linuche unguiculata)

Translations

aquatic animal

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Afrikaans: jellievis
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Albanian: kandil deti (sq) m
Arabic: قِنْدِيل الْبَحْر‎ m (qindīl al-baḥr) (sea lamp), قِنْدِيل‎ (ar) m (qindīl)
Hijazi Arabic: قَنْديل‎ m (gandīl)
Armenian: մեդուզա (hy) (meduza)
Assamese: সাগৰীয়া ছাতি (xagoria sati), জেলীমাছ (zelimas)
Asturian: marmoca f, aguamala f, veleru m, celentereu m
Azerbaijani: meduza (az), dəniz anası, dəniz göbələyi
Basque: marmoka
Belarusian: меду́за f (mjedúza)
Bengali: জেলিফিশ (jeliphiś)
Bikol Central: palit, salabay (bcl) (Portuguese man-of-war)
Breton: morgaoulenn (br) f, blonegenn-vor (br) f
Brunei Malay: ubur-ubur
Bulgarian: меду́за (bg) f (medúza)
Burmese: ငါးဖန်ခွက် (my) (nga:hpanhkwak)
Catalan: medusa (ca) f, borm m
Central Melanau: buboh
Cherokee: ᏩᏂᎨ ᎠᏣᏗ (wanige atsadi)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 水母 (seoi² mou⁵), 海蜇 (hoi² zit³) (edible)
Mandarin: 水母 (zh) (shuǐmǔ), 海蜇 (zh) (hǎizhé)
Comox: q̓ʊpɬanačaɬ
Cornish: morgowlesen f
Czech: medúza (cs) f
Danish: gople c, vandmand c, brandmand (da) c
Dutch: kwal (nl) f
Esperanto: meduzo
Estonian: meduus, millimallikas
Finnish: meduusa (fi)
French: méduse (fr) f
Galician: augamar (gl) f, medusa (gl) f
Georgian: მედუზა (meduza)
German: Qualle (de) f
Greek: μέδουσα (el) f (médousa), τσούχτρα (el) f (tsoúchtra)
Ancient: ἁλιπλεύμων m (halipleúmōn)
Hawaiian: pololia
Hebrew: מֶדוּזָה‎ (he) f (meduzá)
Hindi: जेलिफ़िश (jelifiś), गिजगिजिया (gijgijiyā)
Hungarian: medúza (hu)
Icelandic: marglytta (is) f
Ido: meduzo (io)
Ilocano: karominas
Indonesian: ubur-ubur, ampai-ampai
Interlingua: medusa
Irish: smugairle róin m
Italian: medusa (it) f
Japanese: 海月 (ja) (くらげ, kurage), 水母 (ja) (くらげ, kurage), クラゲ (kurage), すいぼ (suibo)
Javanese: uwur-uwur (jv)
Kazakh: медуза (meduza)
Khmer: ខ្ញែរសមុទ្រ (khñae saʼmot), ជំពុលទឹក (cum pul tɨk)
Kimaragang: bolung
Korean: 해파리 (ko) (haepari)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: bûka deryayê f, pişemasî (ku), medûsa (ku)
Kyrgyz: медуза (ky) (meduza)
Lao: ແມງກະພົນ (mǣng ka phon), ກະພົນ (ka phon)
Latin: pulmo, halipleumon
Latvian: medūza f
Lithuanian: medūza f
Lutshootseed: kəlapχʷəlč
Luxembourgish: Jelliskapp m
Macedonian: медуза f (meduza)
Malay: ampai-ampai, ubur-ubur
Malayalam: കടല്ച്ചൊറി (kaṭalccoṟi)
Maltese: brama f
Manx: skeeah ny muc varrey m, skeeah rauney m, slouree f, slumm m, smug rauney m
Maori: maremaretai, tepetepe, petipeti, kūreperepe-ā-tai, kakaru moana, kūreperepe moana
Mi'kmaq: sasap anim
Mongolian: медуз (mn) (meduz)
Navajo: jélii łóóʼ
Norwegian: manet
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Pashto: مېډوسا‎ f
Persian: عروس دریایی‎ (orus daryâyi) (sea bride), چتر دریایی‎ (čatr daryâyi) (sea umbrella)
Polish: meduza (pl) f
Portuguese: medusa (pt) f, água-viva (pt) f, alforreca (pt) f
Quechua: kachu k'arachiq
Romanian: meduză (ro) f
Russian: меду́за (ru) f (medúza)
Saanich: słχʷəm'əy'qsən
Scottish Gaelic: sgeoldair m, sgoldrach m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: медуза f
Roman: meduza (sh) f
Sinhalese: ලොඩි (loḍi), ජෙලිෆිෂ් (jelifiṣ)
Slovak: medúza (sk) f
Slovene: meduza (sl) f
Spanish: medusa (es) f, aguamala (es) m (Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Southern Spain, Venezuela), aguaviva (es) m (Argentina, Southern Spain and Canary Islands, Uruguay), malagua f (Peru)
Swedish: manet (sv) c
Tagalog: dikya (tl)
Tajik: медуза (meduza)
Tamil: இழுது (ta) (iḻutu), சொறிமுட்டை (coṟimuṭṭai)
Thai: แมงกะพรุน (th) (mɛɛng-gà-prun), กะพรุน (th) (gà-prun)
Tigrinya: ዓሳ ለግለግ (ʿasa lägläg)
Turkish: denizanası (tr)
Turkmen: meduza
Ukrainian: меду́за f (medúza)
Urdu: جیلیفش‎ (jelifiś)
Uyghur: مېدۇزا‎ (mëduza)
Uzbek: meduza (uz)
Vietnamese: sứa (vi)
Waray-Waray: bantol
Welsh: slefren fôr (cy), cont fôr (cy) f
West Frisian: kwab c
Yiddish: מעדוזע‎ f (meduze)
Yup'ik: egaarniq, itulek, masaaq, nuayaaq