Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In entomology, the nymph, chrysalis, or pupa of a lepidopterous insect. See
chrysalis . - noun [capitalized]A genus of pelagic discophorous Hydromedusæ, typical of the family Aureliidæ, characterized by having branched radial vessels and the edge of the disk fringed with small tentacles.
- noun The adult state of any medusa, or the perfected stage of a medusiform zoöid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The chrysalis, or pupa of an insect, esp. when reflecting a brilliant golden color, as that of some of the butterflies.
- noun A genus of jellyfishes. See
discophora .
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Examples
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Chandler said the surf got enormous on a weekend, bringing in the monster numbers of moon jellyfish (technically known as aurelia aurita).
Oregon Coast Travel, Tourism, Science, Entertainment News - Breaking News from the Oregon Coast 2009
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Chandler said the surf got enormous on Saturday, bringing in the monster numbers of moon jellyfish (technically known as aurelia aurita).
Oregon Coast Travel, Tourism, Science, Entertainment News - Breaking News from the Oregon Coast 2008
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Chandler said the surf got enormous on Saturday, bringing in the monster numbers of moon jellyfish (technically known as aurelia aurita).
Oregon Coast Travel, Tourism, Science, Entertainment News - Breaking News from the Oregon Coast 2008
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Chandler said the surf got enormous on Saturday, bringing in the monster numbers of moon jellyfish (technically known as aurelia aurita).
Oregon Coast Travel, Tourism, Science, Entertainment News - Breaking News from the Oregon Coast 2008
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Chandler said the surf got enormous on Saturday, bringing in the monster numbers of moon jellyfish (technically known as aurelia aurita).
Oregon Coast Travel, Tourism, Science, Entertainment News - Breaking News from the Oregon Coast 2008
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Report this comment to the moderators aurelia ann Writes:
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Christian faith may teach us, that the state of the soul is vastly more important than the disposal made of the material form, and that he who has Christian faith will think only of the soul of his departed friend; that, in his view, the body will be only the deserted cell, the cast-off fetter, the forgotten aurelia of the released, the exultant spirit.
The blessed dead waiting for us : a sermon preached in St. James' Church, Marietta, Georgia, on the Festival of All Saints, November 1st, 1863, Samue Benedict 1863
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You could not say such things to aurelia, although, if you are worthy to dine at her side, they are the very things you are longing to say.
Prue and I 1856
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Ay, the aurelia-born image of grace sees a difference when it looks from the sun to the epigenetic thing which He raises out of corruption.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII Alexander Leighton 1837
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Germ and Copy were already seated; the latter was holding a moss rose at a short distance from him, and whistling at it, as if in the act of pourtraying it on paper; while Germ, with green spectacles, was examining a leaf on which he had found the aurelia of a butterfly.
The Corinna of England, and a Heroine in the Shade: a Modern Romance Anonymous 1809
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