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medusoid, a. and n. Zool.|mɪˈdjuːsɔɪd|
[f. Medus-a + -oid.]
A. adj. Resembling a medusa; medusa-like.
1848E. Forbes Naked-eyed Medusæ 83 Zoophytic and Medusoid forms would have regularly alternated. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life 162 The ‘medusoid-bud’ presented to us in the ‘gonophore’ of the Sea-Fir.
B. n.
1. The medusa-like generative bud of a fixed hydrozoan.
1848E. Forbes Naked-eyed Medusæ 72 The full-grown medusoid of the Corymorpha. 1870Nicholson Man. Zool. I. 87 These being developed into the sexless Hydrozoön by which the medusoid was produced.
2. A medusa or medusa-like animal.
1882Cassell's Nat. Hist. VI. 282 One of the prettiest free-swimming Medusoids is more or less bell-shaped. 1890Fothergill Zool. Types & Classif. 12 Free swimming ‘Medusoids’ or Craspedota with velum. |