medusa
noun
a saucer-shaped or dome-shaped, free-swimming jellyfish or hydra.
medusae
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pluralof medusa.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“I was able to actually collect some of those medusae last year during the bloom, but rearing gelatinous organisms is pretty difficult,” Stajner said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2024
Before they adhere to the ocean’s surface, they live underwater as tiny creatures known as medusae, Wagner said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
Although beached by-the-wind sailors die in great numbers, they most probably have already reproduced and left thousands of medusae in the sea, according to Wagner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
He quaintly elucidates this inconceivable number by explaining that eighty thousand persons would have been employed since Adam in counting these little medusae in the two square miles.
From The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron
In the lower marine animals, especially certain medusae, the body consists to the extent of more than ninety-nine per cent of sea-water, and has not one per cent of solid matter.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
