scyphozoan

Noun

Meaning

any of various usually free-swimming marine coelenterates having a gelatinous medusoid stage as the dominant phase of its life cycle

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Scyphozoan jellyfish stings range from a twinge to tingling to agony. Source: Internet

Scyphozoan and hydrozoan larvae have little yolk and most lack endosymbiotic algae, and therefore have to settle quickly and metamorphose into polyps. Source: Internet

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