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jellyfish

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Any one of the acalephs, esp. one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance. See Medusa.

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Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish. Charlie Chaplin

Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish. Bill Bailey

South Africa is not a jellyfish and is in many respects a swordfish. Pieter Willem Botha

The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying on sand. Margaret Atwood

[The Leesburg Garden Club is a] nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making nuisances of themselves. Lyndon LaRouche

The jellyfish never dances with the shrimp. Japanese Proverb

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