jellyfishes See {jellyfish} jellyfish n 1: large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles [syn: {Portuguese man-of-war}, {man-of-war}] 2: any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans [syn: {medusa}, {medusan}] [also: {jellyfishes} (pl)]