Meaning of comb jelly | Babel Free

Definitions

A jelly-like marine animal of the phylum Ctenophora; a ctenophore.

Examples

“Comb-jellies (Ctenophoræ).”

“Ctenophora, the “comb jellies.””

“After contacting the surface of a comb jelly, a larva is often moved about by the comb plates and cilia of the host, but eventually it may stick at a comparatively undisturbed spot.”

“Have you ever met a comb jelly, or ctenophore?”

“Roberts catalogues the other man-made threats to life in the sea: the introduction of alien species by means of ballast water, such as the warty comb jellies that took over the Black Sea [...].”

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