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cabbagehead jellyfish

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: cannonball jellyfish Lure-throwing anglers usually look at [sheepshead] with the same disinterest they show when a cabbagehead jellyfish floats by.— Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 12 Mar. 1998

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1942, in the meaning defined above

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