The swimming bell or umbrella of a jellyfish of medusa.
Defn: Any medusa or jellyfish which is produced by budding from a hydroid.
Then the jellyfish grappled with, and held onto, one of Jerry's arms, and began calmly to tuck it into its digestive cavity.
The digestive cavity of the jellyfish was widening, trying to take in Jerry's head at a single swallow.
Jerry, intent on observing this creature--very like a landbound jellyfish walking clumsily upon its dangling arms--relaxed his vigil as regards control of the host.
He pushed his way through the seaweed and jellyfish and stood at last, a pitiful, dripping figure, on dry land.
The jellyfish were deliciously soft under his feet.
He got past the belt of weed and jellyfish into deep water.
The water near the shore was full of jellyfish and brown seaweed.
But some day it may get itself stranded, and then the poor jellyfish becomes an object quite worthless and fit only to be shoveled out of sight as soon as possible--because it lacks the use of its legs.
Now the jellyfish pursues a most amiable theory of life, being harmless, humorous, and decorative.
But jellyfish sat in the chairs they made in his father's shop.
He must sit and grin at them, these jellyfish who wiggled in their graves and called their wiggles by great names, who were dead .
From a transparent jellyfish which naturally emits a strong and beautiful electric light," was the answer.
After watching the jellyfish a few moments, they followed Merla through the grove, and soon a low chant, like that of an Indian song, fell upon their ears.
This two-layered condition is the limit for a few fresh-water and a vast number of marine animals therefore called "coelenterata," of which the jellyfish and corals are examples.
They saw big, dissolving, poisonous jellyfish in the sea, mysteriously without lines--and tidy slabs of jellyfish on the beach.
Among his first discoveries, it came to him with a thrill that a certain species of jellyfish bears a very close resemblance to the human embryo at a certain stage.
Huxley vowed to himself that before the "Rattlesnake" got back to England he would know more about jellyfish than any other living man.
As these died, they had sunk into the sea-bottom ooze; sand had covered the ooze and pressed it tighter and tighter, until it had become glassy flint, and the entombed jellyfish little beans of dense stone.
It really looked as though he had found the Dying Place of the Jellyfishat that.
How'd you like to stay here with me and hunt fossil jellyfish for a while?
In fine-grained limestones even the imprints of jellyfish have been retained.
Phosphorescent jellyfishcorrelate with the Old Dominant: in one of the most heroic compositions of disregards in our experience, it was agreed, in the discussion of Capt.
Any medusa or jellyfish which is produced by budding from a hydroid.
Well," I admitted cautiously, "jellyfish of the spine must be an unlovely ailment; not that I ever heard of it before.
Normally a jellyfish has its parts in four or multiples of four.
The Sporting Jellyfish It is of interest to consider a common animal like the jellyfish Aurelia.
An animal like the jellyfish is unthinkable on land, and the elongated bodies of some land animals like centipedes and snakes are specially adapted so that they do not "sprawl.
Even in the well-established jellyfishthere is a fountain of change.
The point of giving these details is just this, that every now and then we find a jellyfish with its parts in sixes, fives, or threes, and with a multitude of minor idiosyncrasies.
There's where I got the jellyfish in the dishwater an' the prize hog skinned to death.
Least irritation, least effort, the ideal existence: a jellyfish floating in a tideless, tepid, twilight sea.
The northern sea, which he describes as “like a jellyfish through which one can neither walk nor sail,” is referred “to the rotten and spongy ice which sometimes fills those waters.
You, that are so low in the scale of being, you can no more understand my feelings and motives than a jellyfish can comprehend a star!
After watching the jellyfish a few moments they followed Merla through the grove and soon a low chant, like that of an Indian song, fell upon their ears.
I thought there were lots of poisonous things in the water," Colin said, "jellyfish and other things like that.
Well," replied the collector, "a jellyfish can be tolerable poisonous.
They climbed over a huge old palm tree, lying on the ground, stumbled on a giant, loggerhead turtle, killed in the storm, and slipped on jellyfish left high on the ridge.
Here, like excursion boats all aglow, a score of jellyfish floated past.
To the imaginative Doris, this fairyland of waving seaweed, darting fish, and drifting jellyfish was most entertaining, but she never forgot their real mission.
Thus they went along, the jellyfish skimming through the waves with the monkey sitting on his back.
The monkey was very much surprised at this queer question, and asked what the jellyfish wanted with a liver.
So the jellyfish slowly walked towards the pine-tree.
Finally thejellyfish stopped and told the monkey so.
The jellyfish was then summoned to the King's presence, and was told by his Majesty what was required of him.
The jellyfishwondered at this speech and the mocking tone in which it was uttered.
The jellyfish did not at all like the idea of going all the way back to the island again; but the monkey assured him that if he would be so kind as to take him back he would get his very best liver, and bring it with him the next time.
The jellyfishwas very disappointed when he heard this, for he believed every word the monkey said.
Jane, who had noticed a jellyfish on the beach that morning, asked the teacher to tell about them.
The waves were tossing the jellyfish about, and it wasn’t easy to find them.
Graptolites] The Hydrozoa were represented not only by jellyfish but also by the graptolite, which takes its name from a fancied resemblance of some of its forms to a quill pen.
