Medusa /me-dūˈzə or -sə/

1. One of the three Gorgons, whose head, with snakes for hair, turned beholders into stone, but was cut off by Perseus, and placed in Athena's aegis (Gr myth)
2. (without cap; pl medūˈsae /-zē/ or medūˈsas) a jellyfish
3. (without cap) an individual of the free-swimming sexual generation of jellyfishes and Hydrozoa

medūˈsan adjective

Of or relating to a medusa or medusae

A medusa

medūˈsiform adjective

Like a jellyfish

medūˈsoid adjective

Like a medusa

A sexual hydrozoan that remains attached to the parent hydroid colony

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