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medusa
 
Noun medusa has 3 senses
  1. Medusa - (Greek mythology) a woman transformed into a Gorgon by Athena; she was slain by Perseus
    --1 is a kind of     Gorgon
  2. jellyfish, medusa, medusan - any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans
    --2 is a kind of coelenterate, cnidarian
    --2 is a member of Cnidaria, phylum Cnidaria, Coelenterata, phylum Coelenterata
    --2 has particulars: Aegina; Chrysaora quinquecirrha
  3. medusa - 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
    --3 is a kind of     coelenterate, cnidarian
    --3 is a member of Cnidaria, phylum Cnidaria, Coelenterata, phylum Coelenterata
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