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MEDUSA (medusae)

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• MEDUSA (noun)
The noun MEDUSA has 3 senses:

1. (Greek mythology) a woman transformed into a Gorgon by Athena; 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

Familiarity information: MEDUSA used as a noun is uncommon.

• MEDUSA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

(Greek mythology) a woman transformed into a Gorgon by Athena; she was slain by Perseus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Medusa" is a kind of...):

Gorgon ((Greek mythology) any of three winged sister monsters and the mortal Medusa who had live snakes for hair; a glance at Medusa turned the beholder to stone)

Domain category:

Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

medusan; jellyfish; medusa

Hypernyms ("medusa" is a kind of...):

cnidarian; coelenterate (radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "medusa"):

Aegina (small medusa)

Chrysaora quinquecirrha (a type of jellyfish)

Holonyms ("medusa" is a member of...):

Cnidaria; Coelenterata; phylum Cnidaria; phylum Coelenterata (hydras; polyps; jellyfishes; sea anemones; corals)

Sense 3

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("medusa" is a kind of...):

cnidarian; coelenterate (radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms)

Holonyms ("medusa" is a member of...):

Cnidaria; Coelenterata; phylum Cnidaria; phylum Coelenterata (hydras; polyps; jellyfishes; sea anemones; corals)

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