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"Ephyra" Definition
noun
An immature medusoid stage of a scyphozoan jellyfish once it breaks off from its segmenting polyp.
Source: Wiktionary
A stage in the development of discophorous medusæ, when they first begin to swim about after being detached from the strobila. see strobila.
Pl. ephyræ (-rē). one of the so-called medusæ bifidæ; an attached or free-swimming lobate discoidal medusoid, resulting from transverse fission, by agamogenetic multiplication, in the scyphistoma stage, of the actinula of a discophorous hydrozoan.
Source: Century Dictionary
[capitalized] plural same as ephyromedusæ.
Source: Century Dictionary
[capitalized] a genus of crustaceans.
Source: Century Dictionary