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scy·pho·zoa \ˌsīfəˈzōə\ noun plural Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from scyph- + -zoa : a class of Coelenterata comprising jellyfishes that have endodermal gastric tentacles, endodermal gonads which discharge their products into the digestive cavity, and usually tentaculocysts, that lack a true hydroid and have the asexual generation represented by a scyphistoma, and that usually lack a velum — see coronatae, cubomedusae, rhizostomae, semaeostomeae, stauromedusae • scy·pho·zo·an \|sīfə|zōən\ adjective or noun |