Result from Foreign Dictionaries (4 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Medusa \Me*du"sa\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.]
1. (Class. Myth.) 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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2. [pl. {Medusae}.] (Zool.) Any free swimming acaleph; a
jellyfish.
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Note: The larger medusae belong to the Discophora, and are
sometimes called {covered-eyed medusae}; others, known
as {naked-eyed medusae}, belong to the Hydroidea, and
are usually developed by budding from hydroids. See
{Discophora}, {Hydroidea}, and {Hydromedusa}.
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{Medusa bud} (Zool.), one of the buds of a hydroid, destined
to develop into a gonophore or medusa. See {Athecata}, and
{Gonotheca}.
{Medusa's head}.
(a) (Zool.) An astrophyton.
(b) (Astron.) A cluster of stars in the constellation
Perseus. It contains the bright star Algol.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Medusa
n 1: (Greek mythology) a woman transformed into a Gorgon by
Athena; she was slain by Perseus
2: one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-
swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in
this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and
tentacles [syn: {medusa}, {medusoid}, {medusan}]
From Spanish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-spa-eng]:
medusa
jelly‐fish(meduzo)
From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]:
Medusa /medysa/
Medusa
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