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Definition of Scyphozoan
1. Noun. Any of various usually free-swimming marine coelenterates having a gelatinous medusoid stage as the dominant phase of its life cycle.
Definition of Scyphozoan
1. Noun. Any true jellyfish of the class ''Scyphozoa'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scyphozoan
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scyphozoan
Literary usage of Scyphozoan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Animal Activities: A First Book in Zoölogy by Nathaniel Stowers French (1901)
"The Origin of a scyphozoan Jelly-fish (Medusa aurita). a, adult; f>, <•, d, <•.
f, g, earlier stages. cells, the sea-anemone resembles the hydra. ..."
2. Animal Studies: A Text-book of Elementary Zoology for Use in High Schools by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Harold Heath (1903)
"Stages In the development of a scyphozoan jelly-fish, a, the attached young, ...
As growth pro- FiG- ^-—A" attached scyphozoan jelly-fish ceeds, however, ..."
3. Animals: A Text-book of Zoology by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Harold Heath (1905)
"Stages In the development of a scyphozoan jelly-fish, a, the attached young,
which in b has separated into a number of duks, each of which becomes a ..."
4. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"... the Siphonophora, the majority of Medusae, both hydrozoan and scyphozoan,
nearly the whole class of Ctenophora, many Entomostraca and ..."
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