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Jellyfish   Listen
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Jellyfish  n.  (Zool.) Any one of the acalephs, esp. one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance. See Medusa and acaleph.





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"Jellyfish" Quotes from Famous Books



... call Mind-stuff. A moving molecule of inorganic matter does not possess mind or consciousness; but it possesses a small piece of mind-stuff. When molecules are so combined together as to form the film on the under side of a jellyfish, the elements of mind-stuff which go along with them are so combined as to form the faint beginnings of Sentience. When the molecules are so combined as to form the brain and nervous system of a vertebrate, the corresponding elements of mind-stuff are so ...
— An Introduction to Philosophy • George Stuart Fullerton
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... him, I'm sure. Niles is an ass—a pompous, self-satisfied ass! Holmes is using him just as he likes, and Niles hasn't got sense enough to see it. He's honest enough, I think, but he hasn't got the brains of a well-developed jellyfish." ...
— The Camp Fire Girls in the Mountains - or Bessie King's Strange Adventure • Jane L. Stewart
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... had kicked and coughed a little, he sneezed so hard, that he sneezed himself clean out of his skin, and turned into a water dog, and jumped and danced around Tom, and ran over the crests of the waves, and snapped at the jellyfish and the mackerel, and followed Tom the whole ...
— Journeys Through Bookland V2 • Charles H. Sylvester
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Words linked to "Jellyfish" :   genus Physalia, Aegina, Physalia, Portuguese man-of-war, phylum Cnidaria, cnidarian, Chrysaora quinquecirrha


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