MEDUSA
\mədjˈuːsə], \mədjˈuːsə], \m_ə_d_j_ˈuː_s_ə]\
Definitions of MEDUSA
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans
By Princeton University
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any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The Gorgon; or one of the Gorgons whose hair was changed into serpents, after which all who looked upon her were turned into stone.
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Any free swimming acaleph; a jellyfish.
By Oddity Software
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The Gorgon; or one of the Gorgons whose hair was changed into serpents, after which all who looked upon her were turned into stone.
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Any free swimming acaleph; a jellyfish.
By Noah Webster.
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Free swimming marine cnidarians. Most of the large jellyfish are in the class Scyphozoa; the small jellyfish are in the class Hydrozoa (HYDRA).
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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(myth.) One of the Gorgons, whose head, cut off by Perseus and placed in the aegis of Minerva, had the power of turning beholders into stone: the name given to the common kinds of jelly-fishes, prob. from the likeness of their tentacles to the snakes on Medusa's head:-pl. MEDUSAE.
By Daniel Lyons
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