sea nettle
noun
: a stinging jellyfish
especially
: one (Chrysaora quinquecirrha) occurring especially in Atlantic estuaries from Cape Cod to the West Indies
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A visitor watches the sea nettle jellyfish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey.
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John Metcalfe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2024
Box jellyfish, Portuguese man-of-war, lion’s mane and sea nettle are among highly venomous jellyfish species whose stings require immediate medical attention, per UF Health.
—Caroline C. Boyle, USA TODAY, 8 July 2024
Taken together, the data illustrates, in cinematic detail, a day in the life of a whale: its every breath and every dive, its traverses through fields of sea nettles and jellyfish, its encounters with twirling sea lions.
—Camille Bromley, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2023
This visitor is checking out a Pacific sea nettle jellyfish.
—Jacob Linden, Redbook, 17 Aug. 2023
Passengers and crew aboard a Monterey Bay Whale Watch vessel watched as two of the orca siblings carried what might have been the same sea nettle at different times in the bay.
—Pete Thomas, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2021
Tory Kallman captured footage of the oldest sibling (CA202A) swimming behind a GoPro camera with the sea nettle dangling from his chin.
—Pete Thomas, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2021
The stinging sea nettles that had been sucked into the plant and killed by heated water are now thriving and multiplying.
—Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2019
The cameras documented over 200 instances of jellyfish consumption, including painful sea nettles (Chrysaora plocamia) and Cyanea.
—National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2017
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John Metcalfe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2024
Box jellyfish, Portuguese man-of-war, lion’s mane and sea nettle are among highly venomous jellyfish species whose stings require immediate medical attention, per UF Health.
—Caroline C. Boyle, USA TODAY, 8 July 2024
Taken together, the data illustrates, in cinematic detail, a day in the life of a whale: its every breath and every dive, its traverses through fields of sea nettles and jellyfish, its encounters with twirling sea lions.
—Camille Bromley, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2023
This visitor is checking out a Pacific sea nettle jellyfish.
—Jacob Linden, Redbook, 17 Aug. 2023
Passengers and crew aboard a Monterey Bay Whale Watch vessel watched as two of the orca siblings carried what might have been the same sea nettle at different times in the bay.
—Pete Thomas, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2021
Tory Kallman captured footage of the oldest sibling (CA202A) swimming behind a GoPro camera with the sea nettle dangling from his chin.
—Pete Thomas, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2021
The stinging sea nettles that had been sucked into the plant and killed by heated water are now thriving and multiplying.
—Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2019
The cameras documented over 200 instances of jellyfish consumption, including painful sea nettles (Chrysaora plocamia) and Cyanea.
—National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2017
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“Sea nettle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sea%20nettle. Accessed 15 Feb. 2025.
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