Meaning of Medusa in English
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Noun
MedusaEtymology
mid 18th century: named by association with MedusaDefinitions
1. (Greek mythology) a woman transformed into a Gorgon by AthenaExamples
- « she was slain by Perseus »
- 2. any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans
- 3. one of two forms that coelenterates take: is the free-swimming sexual stage in the life cycle of a coelenterate and has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles