jellyfish

英 [ˈdʒelifɪʃ]

美 [ˈdʒelifɪʃ]

n.  水母; 海蜇

复数：jellyfishes　

TOEFLTEM8医学

BNC.23528 / COCA.18731

牛津词典

noun

• 水母；海蜇
  a sea creature with a body like jelly and long thin parts called tentacles that can give a sharp sting

柯林斯词典

• 水母；海蜇
  Ajellyfishis a sea creature that has a clear soft body and can sting you.

英英释义

noun

• any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans
• large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles
  Synonym:Portuguese man-of-warman-of-war

双语例句

• This jellyfish looks soft enough to eat!
  这条水母看起来可以直接吃了！
• Have you heard the one about the jellyfish, the monkey, and the glow in the dark cat?
  你听说过关于水母、猴子和在荧光猫的事情吗？
• The scientists say they injected a green glowing protein found in jellyfish into fertilized marmoset eggs.
  科学家说，他们将发现一个绿色的发光蛋白质在水母到受精狨鸡蛋。
• Waters boil with jellyfish in one of Palau's marine lakes.
  在帕劳群岛的其中一个海洋湖泊里，湖水因水母而翻腾着。
• A transparent larval shrimp piggybacks on an equally see-through jellyfish in the waters around Hawaii.
  在夏威夷岛附近的水域里，一只透明的幼虾骑在一只同样透明的水母背上。
• Monica got stung by a jellyfish.
  莫妮卡被水母蜇了一下。
• A shape resembling a jellyfish. It lay behind him, a bowl of bitter waters.
  类水母体象水母的形状这钵苦水就躺在他脚下。
• The nematocysts can still release their sting even after the jellyfish is dead.
  甚至在海蜇死了后，刺丝囊刺细胞还能释放出它们的蛰刺。
• But you might run into some jellyfish or Portuguese man-of-wars.
  但是你可能碰上海蛰或者僧帽水母。
• Jellyfish and fire coral are cousins.
  水母和火珊瑚是一家。