scyphistoma

noun
/saɪˈfɪstəmə/

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σκύφος (skúphos, “cup”) + στόμα (stóma, “mouth”).

  1. derived from σκύφος

Definitions

  1. An individual cell in a stage of the life cycle of a true jellyfish (class Scyphozoa), a…

    An individual cell in a stage of the life cycle of a true jellyfish (class Scyphozoa), a colony of such cells, when it resembles a polyp and breeds asexually by strobilation.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for scyphistoma. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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