sea blubber

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Noun

sea blubber (countable and uncountable, plural sea blubbers)

  1. A jellyfish; a medusa.
    Synonym: carvel
  2. A lion's mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata).
    • 1903, Augusta Foote Arnold, The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide: A Guide to the Study of the Seaweeds and the Lower Animal Life Found Between Tide-marks, page 138:
      GENUS Cyanea / C. arctica, the sun-jelly or sea-blubber. This is the largest jellyfish known. Some individuals measure seven and a half feet across the disk and have tentacles more than one hundred feet long.
    • 1923, William Crowder, Dwellers of the Sea and Shore:
      No less remarkable for its beauty is Cyanea fulva. This species may well be termed the "little brown brother" of the more widely known C. arctica, or sea blubber, the largest jellyfish in existence.
    • 1984, Sailing Directions (planning Guide) for the North Sea and Baltic Sea, page 111:
      The venomous golden-or reddish-brown sea blubber (or lion's mane) jellyfish Cyanea capillata occurs in large numbers within coastal waters. […] The sea blubber, compass, and cabbage bleb jellyfishes also may sting.

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