scyphozoann.adj.
/ˌsʌɪfəʊˈzəʊən/ A jellyfish belonging to the class Scyphozoa; of or pertaining to an animal of this kind.
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1892 J. A. Thomson Outl. Zool. x. 137 (caption) Contrast between a Hydrozoon and a Scyphozoon medusoid.]
1915 A. E. Shipley & E. W. MacBride Zool. (ed. 3) iii. 75 The construction of the Scyphozoan organ is quite different.
1915 A. E. Shipley & E. W. MacBride Zool. (ed. 3) iii. 78 The original Scyphozoan was probably an organism like a polyp.
1938 R. Buchsbaum Animals without Backbones viii. 95 Aurelia is one of the commonest of the scyphozoan jellyfish.
1967 P. A. Meglitsch Invertebr. Zool. vi. 148/1 Stauromedusae are the most unusual scyphozoans.
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