medusa
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- n (Greek mythology) a woman transformed into a Gorgon by Athena; she was slain by Perseus
- n 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
- A medusa jellyfish floats in the sea near the Adriatic town of Split, Croatia.
- Take, Thomas suggests, the case of the nudibranch (a sea slug) and the medusa (a jellyfish) that live in the Bay of Naples.