medusa's head
noun
1
: an edible hedgehog mushroom (Hydnum caput-medusae) with interwoven hymenial spines
2
: an African euphorbia (Euphorbia caput-medusae) with numerous drooping slender branches
3
: a weedy rye grass (Elymus caput-medusae) having long bristling awns
Word History
Etymology
after Medusa, one of the three Gorgons, whose hair was said to have been turned into snakes