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Definitions of medusa in various dictionaries:
noun - (Greek mythology) a woman transformed into a Gorgon by Athena
noun - one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate
The Gorgon who was killed by Perseus.
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She's the "attractive" mythological woman seen here (with hair full of snakes) |
She foolishly fooled around with Poseidon in Athena's temple, so Athena turned her hair into snakes |
After she rendezvoused with Poseidon in Athena's temple, Athena changed her hair into serpents |
This monstrous mythological maiden's equally monstrous sisters were Stheno & Euryale |
Perseus cut off the head of this gorgon & presented it to King Polydectes |
She was the only one of the Gorgons who was mortal |
Her sisters Stheno & Euryale are mentioned in myth, but we don't know if they were as ugly |
When this Gorgon got mad at Athena for refusing a request, Athena made her ugly & turned her hair into snakes |
The winged horse Pegasus arose from the blood of this Gorgon when Perseus cut off her head |
The only one of the 3 Gorgons who could be killed, Perseus cut off her head |
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The tentacled, usually bell-shaped, free-swimming sexual stage in the life cycle of a coelenterate, such as a jellyfish. |
a free-swimming sexual form of a coelenterate such as a jellyfish, typically having an umbrella-shaped body with stinging tentacles around the edge. In some species, medusae are a phase in the life cycle which alternates with a polypoid phase. |
A free-swimming sexual form of a coelenterate such as a jellyfish, typically having an umbrella-shaped body with stinging tentacles around the edge. In some species, medusae are a phase in the life cycle which alternates with a polypoid phase. |
The only mortal gorgon, whom Perseus killed by cutting off her head. |
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 |
(Greek mythology) a woman transformed into a Gorgon by Athena she was slain by Perseus |
any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans |
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In Greek mythology, Medusa (; "guardian, protectress") was a monster, a Gorgon, generally described as a winged human female with living venomous snakes in place of hair. Gazers upon her face would turn to stone. Most sources describe her as the daughter of Phorcys and Ceto, though the author Hyginus makes her the daughter of Gorgon and Ceto. According to Hesiod and Aeschylus, she lived and died on an island named Sarpedon, somewhere near Cisthene. The 2nd-century BCE novelist Dionysios Skytobrachion puts her somewhere in Libya, where Herodotus had said the Berbers originated her myth, as part of their religion. * Medusa was beheaded by the hero Perseus, who thereafter used her head, which retained its ability to turn onlookers to stone, as a weapon until he gave it to the goddess Athena to place on her shield. In classical antiquity the image of the head of Medusa appeared in the evil-averting device known as the Gorgoneion. |