Word Meanings - MEDUSIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A medusa.

MEDUSA
The Gorgon; or one of the Gorgons whose hair was changed into serpents, after which all who looked upon her were turned into stone.
SCYPHOMEDUSA; SCYPHOMEDUSAE
See DISCOPHORA
POLYPOMEDUSAE
See HYDROZOA
HYDROMEDUSA
Any medusa or jellyfish which is produced by budding from a hydroid. They are called also Craspedota, and naked-eyed medusæ. Note: Such medusæ are the reproductive zooids or gonophores, either male or female, of the hydroid from which they arise,
TRACHYMEDUSAE
A division of acalephs in which the development is direct from the eggs, without a hydroid stage. Some of the species are parasitic on other medusæ.