Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- The name given by Gegenbaur to the acalephs proper; that is, to those jelly-fishes and sea-nettles the lobate border of whose disk is not provided (with few exceptions, as in
Aurelia ) with a contractile marginal fold or velum: nearly synonymous with Discophora (which see): opposed to Craspedota. See cut underacaleph .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A group of acalephs, including most of the larger jellyfishes; the Discophora.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology A group of
acalephs that includes most of the largerjellyfish
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