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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Lion’s manes, which can have 100-foot (30-meter) tentacles, sea nettles and moon jellyfish are some varieties that frequent Delaware’s summertime waters.
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Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2025
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
Doug Duran / Bay Area News Group via Tribune News Service
A visitor watches the sea nettle jellyfish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey.
—John Metcalfe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 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
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Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2025
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
Doug Duran / Bay Area News Group via Tribune News Service
A visitor watches the sea nettle jellyfish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey.
—John Metcalfe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 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
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“Sea nettle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sea%20nettle. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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