comb jelly

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   biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb

   Synonymsctenophore

   Broaderinvertebrate

   Narrowerberoeplatycteneansea gooseberryVenus's girdle

   Part ofCtenophora

   Partsctenecomb

Questions about comb jelly

What does comb jelly mean?

comb jelly means "biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb".

What is another word for comb jelly?

Close synonyms include ctenophore. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is comb jelly a common word?

comb jelly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.