What is the meaning of the word "jellyfish"?

Definitions:

  1. any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans copy to clipboard noun
    • I study the distribution of jellyfish. copy to clipboard
  2. large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles copy to clipboard noun
    • I got stung by jellyfish on the beach. copy to clipboard

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