medusa
noun
a saucer-shaped or dome-shaped, free-swimming jellyfish or hydra.
Medusas
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pluralof Medusa.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
medusas
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pluralof medusa.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
medusanouna saucer-shaped or dome-shaped, free-swimming jellyfish or hydra.
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Wearing a toadstool headdress and a skirt embellished with Medusas, El Beh has one of the most striking looks — though the orange ram’s horns on Trebien Pollard are quite something, too.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2022
Medusas are the successors of Bruitparif’s first-generation sensors, called Sonopodes, which rely on expensive components imported from Japan.
From The New Yorker ● May 6, 2019
The band's final two songs are I Am The King and Medusas "which sounds like it's a Greek myth but is actually about jelly fish".
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2019
He wielded his clinical obligation like Perseus’s shield, in which a cavalcade of Medusas lost their stony power.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 4, 2015
I followed the hissing and spitting sounds of Medusas hair.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
The blue seafaring colonies are themselves asexual, though they bud off tiny transparent medusas that are thought to go to the deep sea and reproduce sexually there, Stajner said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2024
Vivid hues that evoked the sea beds and headwear that resembled medusas continued the theme.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2022
But not all marine lakes have medusas, the bell-shape organisms you probably think of when the word "jellyfish" comes to mind.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 28, 2018
The ephyra grow into medusas, the mature forms of the jellyfish.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Directly afterwards we found ourselves in a shoal of medusas or jellyfish.
From My First Voyage to Southern Seas by Alfred Pearse
