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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The concave underside of the medusa of a jellyfish or other cnidarian.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The internal ventral or oral disk of a hydrozoan, as a jellyfish; the muscular layer beneath the umbrella or swimming-bell of a hydromedusan, continuous with the velum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The integument of the under surface of the bell, or disk-shaped body, of a jellyfish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology The
integument of theundersurface of thebell , ordisk -shaped body, of ajellyfish .
Etymologies
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sub- + umbrella
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