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jellyfish (Cnidaria (phylum), Animalia (kingdom), ... Living Organisms (hierarchy name)) |
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Note: General name referring to various marine and fresh-water, free-swimming members of the phylum Cnidaria, belonging to various classes based on different morphology; families include Cubozoa (about 20 species), Scyphozoa (about 200 species), Staurozoa (about 50 species), and Hydrozoa (about 1000-1500 species, all of which are not jellyfish). Most jellyfish have in common a rounded, nearly transparent gelatinous body with a mouth on the underside surrounded by stinging tentacles; their bodies alternately expand and contract, allowing them to trap prey in their tentacles as they jet upward and parachute down again.
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| Terms: |
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| jellyfish (preferred,C,U,English-P,D,U,N)
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............ | singular and plural for individuals |
| jellyfishes (C,U,LC,English,AD,U,N)
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............ | plural for different varieties |
| jelly-fish (C,U,English,UF,U,N)
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| 水母 (C,U,Chinese (traditional)-P,D,U,U)
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| shuǐ mǔ (C,U,Chinese (transliterated Hanyu Pinyin)-P,UF,U,U)
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| shui mu (C,U,Chinese (transliterated Wade-Giles),UF,U,U)
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| shui mu (Chinese (transliterated Pinyin without tones)-P,UF,U,U)
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| kwallen (C,U,Dutch-P,D,U,U)
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| kwal (C,U,Dutch,AD,U,U)
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Facet/Hierarchy Code: H.HL |
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.... Living Organisms (hierarchy name) (G) |
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........ living organisms (entities) (G) |
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............ Eukaryota (domain) (G) |
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................ Animalia (kingdom) (G) |
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.................... Cnidaria (phylum) (G) |
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........................ jellyfish (G) |
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| Chinese (traditional) ..... 指各種生活在海水與淡水中，自由游動的刺胞動物門成員。依形態上的差異分屬不同綱，包括立方水母綱(約含二十種生物)、缽水母綱(約含兩百種生物)、十字水母綱(約含五十種生物)，以及水螅綱(約含一千至一千五百種非水母的生物)。多數水母的共同點為其渾圓且近乎透明的凝膠狀身體，口位於身體下方，周圍有具毒性的觸手；身體不斷伸展與收縮，使其在向上噴射及往下降落的時候，能夠利用觸手捕捉獵物。 |
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