Definition of Genus chrysaora

1. Noun. A genus of Scyphozoa.

Exact synonyms: Chrysaora
Generic synonyms: Coelenterate Genus
Group relationships: Class Scyphozoa, Scyphozoa
Member holonyms: Chrysaora Quinquecirrha

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Chrysaora

genus Chlorophoneus
genus Chlorophyllum
genus Chloroxylon
genus Chlorura
genus Choeronycteris
genus Choloepus
genus Chondrus
genus Chordeiles
genus Chordospartium
genus Choriotis
genus Chorizagrotis
genus Chorizema
genus Christella
genus Chronoperates
genus Chrysanthemum
genus Chrysaora
genus Chrysemys
genus Chrysobalanus
genus Chrysochloris
genus Chrysolepis
genus Chrysolophus
genus Chrysophrys
genus Chrysophyllum
genus Chrysopsis
genus Chrysosplenium
genus Chrysothamnus
genus Chunga
genus Cibotium
genus Cicada
genus Cicer

Literary usage of Genus chrysaora

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate by Richard Owen (1855)
"Dalyell narrates, in his beautiful work, that one summer having selected a specimen of a Medusa of the genus Chrysaora, he kept it alive in a capacious jar ..."

2. Structure and polarity of the electric motor nerve-cell in torpedoes by Ulric Dahlgren (1915)
"... These are all small and about 10 mm. in diameter, evidently being taken from a swarm of immature individuals. Genus CHRYSAORA Peron and Lesueur, 1809. ..."

3. Sex, Its Origin and Determination: A Study of the Metabolic Cycle and Its by Thomas E. Reed (1913)
"Among jelly fish the genus chrysaora is known to be hermaphrodite." As we follow the animal scale to the higher forms we find normal, adult hermaphroditism ..."

4. The Evolution of Sex by Patrick Geddes, John Arthur Thomson (1908)
"... the genus Chrysaora is known to be hermaphrodite. (3.) " Worms."—The condition of the sexual organs varies enormously among the diverse types lumped ..."

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