Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun scyphozoa

1 sense of scyphozoa

Sense 1
Scyphozoa, class Scyphozoa -- (coelenterates in which the polyp stage is absent or at least inconspicuous: jellyfishes)
       => class -- ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun scyphozoan

1 sense of scyphozoan

Sense 1
scyphozoan -- (any of various usually free-swimming marine coelenterates having a gelatinous medusoid stage as the dominant phase of its life cycle)
       => coelenterate, cnidarian -- (radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms)