Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Rhizostomata

Rhizostomata , noun, plural

[New Latin, from Greek {not transcribed} a root + {not transcribed}, {not transcribed}, a mouth.]

(Zoology) A suborder of Medusae which includes very large species without marginal tentacles, but having large mouth lobes closely united at the edges. See Illust. in Appendix.