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  • hydromedusa

    the medusa form of a hydrozoan.

  • hydrozoan

    any freshwater or marine coelenterate of the class Hydrozoa, including free-swimming or attached types, as the hydra, in which one developmental stage, either the polyp or medusa, is absent, and colonial types, as the Portuguese man-of-war, in which both medusa and polyp stages are present in a single colony.

  • algol

    the second brightest star in Perseus, the first known eclipsing binary. Visual magnitude: 2.2–3.5; period: 68.8 hours; spectral type (brighter component): B8V

  • gonangium

    a reproductive polyp of a colonial hydroid, giving rise asexually to medusa buds.

  • gonophore

    an asexually produced bud in hydrozoans that gives rise to the equivalent of a medusa.

  • gorgon

    Classical Mythology. any of three sister monsters commonly represented as having snakes for hair, wings, brazen claws, and eyes that turned anyone looking into them to stone. Medusa, the only mortal Gorgon, was beheaded by Perseus.
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