medusa
IPA: mʌdˈusʌ
Root Word: Medusa
noun
- (Greek mythology) The youngest and only mortal of the three gorgon sisters, killed by Perseus.
- (zoology) A jellyfish; specifically, a non-polyp form of individual cnidarians, consisting of a gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles.
- (pathology) Synonym of worm-star
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Examples of "medusa" in Sentences
- But Medusa would not go quietly.
- Medusa was the boss of the horde.
- The manubrium of the medusae is short.
- The Raft of the Medusa is content heavy.
- Each medusa is either a male or a female.
- Medusa is a METAPHOR not a special appearance.
- Medusa was then changed into a monster by Athena.
- Consider the painting of the 'Raft of the Medusa'.
- At the center of Athena's shield was the head of Medusa.
- The medusa is the immortal species which are miraculously unbelievable.
- Oh, & the medusa spiders; plenty of them, & also presumably a Smokey apparition.
- Its hair was full of monsters bound in chains and bent with iron; a medusa for the 1890s.
- Her face was saturated with tears and snot and her crazy medusa hair made her look like an escaped mental patient.
- The medusa is a genus of molusca; and I think M. le Seur told me he reckons forty-three or forty-four species of that genus.
- Meadows dominate above 3,800 m and form the only vegetation above 4,000 m along with high-alpine species such as Saussurea medusa.
- The object of this curious arrangement is to enable the whale to catch the little shrimps and small sea-blubbers, called "medusa;", on which it feeds.
- The near perfection of Roman Polanski's Chinatown starts with Diener/Hauser/Bates's haunting art nouveau poster for the film: an emblematic Hokusai wave breaks against Jack Nicholson's silhouette as the smoke from his cigarette floats up to merge with Faye Dunaway's medusa-like hair.
- The tropes of myth, legend and fairy tale build themselves into my work almost without my thinking about it, and I put that down to a lifetime of loving those stories, which have so much wisdom in them. on 16 Apr 2008 at 8: 22 am Riley medusa on 16 Apr 2008 at 8: 42 am Jeff Wetherington
- Maybe people werent as beautiful as back during the Prettytime, but parties were a lot more interesting: serious surge-monkeys with snake fingers and medusa hair; smart-matter clothes that rippled like flags in a breeze; safety fireworks skittering along the floor, dodging feet and sizzling incense as they passed.
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