Jellyfish [adjective]

"He is a fair sample of some of the human jellyfish I have found hidden away in odd corners on this coast," stated Captain Mayo.

The children's mother told them that the whale is the largest of all animals, and that it lives on little jellyfish.

By the time he was twenty-seven the only living thing that could be said to have served him as a model was the jellyfish.

Now the jellyfish pursues a most amiable theory of life, being harmless, humorous, and decorative.

Perhaps because, after all, no man ever quite achieves complete resemblance to a jellyfish.

They saw big, dissolving, poisonous jellyfish in the sea, mysteriously without lines—and tidy slabs of jellyfish on the beach.

Around every one of these strange jellyfish was a little school of tiny minnows, as clear-colored as crystals.

For a moment the shortcake lies helplessly on its side like a jellyfish that the tide has left.

I think of jellyfish, such as inhabit the seas of most of the inhabited planets, and yet this is not a good description.

He began to dissect them and thus began his book on jellyfish, just as Darwin wrote his work on barnacles.