medusae in English

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the only mortal Gorgon, whom Perseus killed by cutting off her head.
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a free-swimming sexual form of a coelenterate such as a jellyfish, typically having an umbrella-shaped body with stinging tentacles around the edge. In some species, medusae are a phase in the life cycle that alternates with a polypoid phase.
A medusa , or jellyfish, is part of the life cycle of just one major group of animals, the cnidarians.
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1. According to some tales, Amphisbaenas come from the blood of medusae

2. Cnidarian - Cnidarian - Locomotion: Medusae swim by jet propulsion (see below Tissues and muscles)

3. This deep diving behaviour may reflect nocturnal foraging on siphonophore and salp colonies and medusae within the deep scattering layer (Eckert et al., 1989).

4. Cnidarians are incredibly diverse in form, as evidenced by colonial siphonophores, massive medusae and corals, feathery hydroids, and box jellies with complex eyes

5. What is special about Bluebottles is that they are not 1 animal but rather a colony of four different specialised polyps and medusae fused together

6. The Coelenterates are mainly marine organisms and are best known as jellyfish or medusae, sea anemones, corals, the Portuguese man-of-war, small polypoid forms called hydroids, and the …

7. Aeciospores of M. medusae were found on spore traps only at the Wisconsin site (within the natural range of larch) from May 19 until the end of June in 1975 and 1976.

8. Cnidarians are incredibly diverse in form, as evidenced by colonial siphonophores, massive medusae and corals, feathery hydroids, and box jellies with complex eyes. Yet, these diverse animals are all armed with stinging cells called nematocysts.

9. Examples of in a sentence (From Moseley.) irregular coenosarcal canals, the coenosteum may contain, in its superficial portion, chambers or Ampullae, in which the reproductive zoids (medusae or gonophores) are budded from the coenosarc.

10. All of them are simple and aquatic, and most of them live in the sea.Some are colonial, composed of zooids which may be clones.Cnidarian zooids may take the form of polyps or medusae at different phases of their life.

11. Cnidarian definition is - any of a phylum (Cnidaria) of radially symmetrical, aquatic, invertebrate animals that have a hollow digestive cavity opening to the outside by a single opening surrounded by one or more nematocyst-studded whorls of tentacles, that occur as single or colonial sessile, typically columnar polyps or usually free-swimming, bell-shaped medusae, and that include the corals

12. Cnidarian definition is - any of a phylum (Cnidaria) of radially symmetrical, aquatic, invertebrate animals that have a hollow digestive cavity opening to the outside by a single opening surrounded by one or more nematocyst-studded whorls of tentacles, that occur as single or colonial sessile, typically columnar polyps or usually free-swimming, bell-shaped medusae, and that include the corals, sea anemones, …