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MEDUSAN

• MEDUSAN (noun)
The noun MEDUSAN has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans

Familiarity information: MEDUSAN used as a noun is very rare.

• MEDUSAN (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

medusan; jellyfish; medusa

Hypernyms ("medusan" is a kind of...):

cnidarian; coelenterate (radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "medusan"):

Aegina (small medusa)

Chrysaora quinquecirrha (a type of jellyfish)

Holonyms ("medusan" is a member of...):

Cnidaria; Coelenterata; phylum Cnidaria; phylum Coelenterata (hydras; polyps; jellyfishes; sea anemones; corals)

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Useful links:
Definition of Coelenterata
Definition of Aegina
Definition of Cnidaria
Definition of phylum Coelenterata
Definition of coelenterate

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