Word Meanings - PERSEUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A Grecian legendary hero, son of Jupiter and Danaë, who slew the Gorgon Medusa.

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• GORGONIACEA
  One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or c Note: The axis is commonly horny, but it may be solid and stony , as in the red coral of commerce,
• GORGONZOLA
  A kind of Italian pressed milk cheese; -- so called from a village near Milan.
• GORGONEAN
  See 1
• JUPITER
  The supreme deity, king of gods and men, and reputed to be the son of Saturn and Rhea; Jove. He corresponds to the Greek Zeus.
• 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.
• GORGONIA
  1. A genus of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum), sea plume , and other allied species having a flexible, horny axis. 2. Any slender branched gorgonian.
• GRECIAN
  Of or pertaining to Greece; Greek. Grecian bend, among women, an affected carriage of the body, the upper part being inclined forward. -- Grecian fire. See Greek fire, under Greek.
• LEGENDARY
  Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends; consisting of legends; like a legend; fabulous. "Legendary writers." Bp. Lloyd. Legendary stories of nurses and old women. Bourne.
• GORGON
  One of three fabled sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, with snaky hair and of terrific aspect, the sight of whom turned the beholder to stone. The name is particularly given to Medusa. 2. Anything very ugly or horrid. Milton.
• GORGONACEA
  See GORGONIACEA
• GORGONEION
  A mask carved in imitation of a Gorgon's head. Elmes.
• GORGONIZE
  To have the effect of a Gorgon upon; to turn into stone; to petrify.
• GORGONIAN
  Pertaining to the Gorgoniacea; as, gorgonian coral. (more info) 1. Pertaining to, or resembling, a Gorgon; terrifying into stone; terrific. The rest his look Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move. Milton.
• SCYPHOMEDUSA; SCYPHOMEDUSAE
  See DISCOPHORA
• POLYPOMEDUSAE
  See HYDROZOA
• DEMOGORGON
  , A mysterious, terrible, and evil divinity, regarded by some as the author of creation, by others as a great magician who was supposed to command the spirits of the lower world. See Gorgon. Orcus and Ades, and the dreaded name Of Demogorgon.
• GRECIZE; GRECIANIZE
  To conform to the Greek custom, especially in speech.
• 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.