"comb jelly" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From their prominent bands of cilia, and their jelly-like texture and resemblance to jellyfish.",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "taxonomic": "Mertensia ovum",
          "word": "Arctic comb jelly"
        },
        {
          "taxonomic": "Lampocteis spp.",
          "word": "bloodybelly comb jelly"
        },
        {
          "taxonomic": "Beroe spp.",
          "word": "cigar comb jelly"
        },
        {
          "taxonomic": "Coeloplana astericola",
          "word": "creeping comb jelly"
        },
        {
          "taxonomic": "Lobata spp.",
          "word": "lobed comb jelly"
        },
        {
          "taxonomic": "Bolinopsis infunibulum",
          "word": "northern comb jelly"
        },
        {
          "taxonomic": "Mnemiopsis spp.",
          "word": "warty comb jelly"
        }
      ],
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          "ref": "1870, William Dallas, translation of Ernst Haeckel, “On the Organization of Sponges, and their Relationship to the Corals”, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, fourth series, volume 5, page 7",
          "text": "Comb-jellies (Ctenophoræ)."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, Buel P. Colton, Zoölogy, Heath, part 1, page 330:",
          "text": "Ctenophora, the “comb jellies.”",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, Sears Crowell, “An Edwardsiid Larva Parasitic in Mnemiopsis”, in Coelenterate Ecology and Behavior, Plenum, →ISBN, page 249:",
          "text": "After contacting the surface of a comb jelly, a larva is often moved about by the comb plates and cilia of the host, but eventually it may stick at a comparatively undisturbed spot.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Olivia Judson, Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation, Metropolitan,, →ISBN, page 56:",
          "text": "Have you ever met a comb jelly, or ctenophore?",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Charles Clover, ‘Up To Our Necks’, Literary Review, number 399:",
          "text": "Roberts catalogues the other man-made threats to life in the sea: the introduction of alien species by means of ballast water, such as the warty comb jellies that took over the Black Sea [...].",
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        "A jelly-like marine animal of the phylum Ctenophora; a ctenophore."
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "comb-jelly"
        },
        {
          "word": "combjelly"
        }
      ],
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        "Ctenophora"
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  "word": "comb jelly"
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      "taxonomic": "Mertensia ovum",
      "word": "Arctic comb jelly"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Lampocteis spp.",
      "word": "bloodybelly comb jelly"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Beroe spp.",
      "word": "cigar comb jelly"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Coeloplana astericola",
      "word": "creeping comb jelly"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Lobata spp.",
      "word": "lobed comb jelly"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Bolinopsis infunibulum",
      "word": "northern comb jelly"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Mnemiopsis spp.",
      "word": "warty comb jelly"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From their prominent bands of cilia, and their jelly-like texture and resemblance to jellyfish.",
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          "ref": "1870, William Dallas, translation of Ernst Haeckel, “On the Organization of Sponges, and their Relationship to the Corals”, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, fourth series, volume 5, page 7",
          "text": "Comb-jellies (Ctenophoræ)."
        },
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          "ref": "1907, Buel P. Colton, Zoölogy, Heath, part 1, page 330:",
          "text": "Ctenophora, the “comb jellies.”",
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        },
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          "ref": "1976, Sears Crowell, “An Edwardsiid Larva Parasitic in Mnemiopsis”, in Coelenterate Ecology and Behavior, Plenum, →ISBN, page 249:",
          "text": "After contacting the surface of a comb jelly, a larva is often moved about by the comb plates and cilia of the host, but eventually it may stick at a comparatively undisturbed spot.",
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          "ref": "2012, Charles Clover, ‘Up To Our Necks’, Literary Review, number 399:",
          "text": "Roberts catalogues the other man-made threats to life in the sea: the introduction of alien species by means of ballast water, such as the warty comb jellies that took over the Black Sea [...].",
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "comb-jelly"
    },
    {
      "word": "combjelly"
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  ],
  "word": "comb jelly"
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