medusoid

Of, relating to, or resembling a medusa or a jellyfish.

Designating or relating to the medusa stage in the life cycle of a cnidarian.

A medusalike bud developed from a hydrozoan polyp, a medusa, or a jellyfish.

Like a medusa; resembling a medusa in form or function; medusiform: as, a medusoid bud; the medusoid organization. Sometimes acalephoid.

The medusiform generative bud or receptacle of the reproductive elements of a hydrozoan, whether it becomes detached or not.

Loosely, any medusa, medusidan, or medusoid organism.

Like a medusa; having the fundamental structure of a medusa, but without a locomotive disk; — said of the sessile gonophores of hydroids.

jellyfish

Having the shape of a jellyfish

one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles