scyphozoan, n. and a.
(ˌsaɪfəʊˈzəʊən)
[f. mod.L. class name Scyphozoa (A. Goette 1898, in Zeitschr. f. Wiss. Zool. LXIII. 292), f. scypho- + -zoa (see zoon).]
A jellyfish belonging to the class Scyphozoa; of or pertaining to an animal of this kind.
| [1892 J. A. Thomson Outlines Zool. x. 137 (caption) Contrast between a Hydrozoon and a Scyphozoon medusoid.] 1915 Shipley & MacBride Zool. (ed. 3) iii. 75 The construction of the Scyphozoan organ is quite different. Ibid. 78 The original Scyphozoan was probably an organism like a polyp. 1938 R. Buchsbaum Anim. without Backbones viii. 95 Aurelia is one of the commonest of the scyphozoan jellyfish. 1967 P. A. Meglitsch Invertebrate Zool. vi. 148/1 Stauromedusae are the most unusual scyphozoans. |