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Meanings of medusoid in English

One of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles.

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Coelenterate.

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Examples for "medusa"
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A broad, mottled band had appeared along the side of the medusa.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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He could no longer see the medusa; once more it was directly overhead.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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The semi-transparent globules appeared to consist of an animal of the medusa kind.
The Ocean and Its Wonders
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And the medusa, no longer falling, began to roll back toward the horizontal.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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Then he noticed that the medusa's tactics seemed to be having some effect.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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Sudden breezes lifted the woman's hair in medusan strands.
The panic zone
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It was the look of a cornered animal, something with fangs and claws and wild medusan hair.
Brave girl eating: a family's struggle with anorexia
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Guinevere, about forty, was exceedingly beautiful, in spite of wearing her long blond hair in medusan cascades of cornrows, which Roy disliked.
Dark rivers of the heart
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Medusan civilization is based on autonomous bronze age city-states, although significant nomad populations exist.
House of Steel
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An unstable Medusan whose apparent suicide was in fact murder.
The bourne ultimatum
Usage of medusoid in English
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Granted, the gorgon effect only changes whatever the medusoid can see directly, but we know the light reflected from those bodies isn't responsible.
The Atrocity Archives
Medusoid through the time