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Sea Willow :: Sea willow () A gorgonian coral with long flexible branches.

Gorgonia :: Gorgonia (n.) Any slender branched gorgonian.

Lithophyte :: Lithophyte (n.) A hard, or stony, plantlike organism, as the gorgonians, corals, and corallines, esp. those gorgonians having a calcareous axis. All the lithophytes except the corallines are animals..

Gorgonian :: Gorgonian (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a Gorgon; terrifying into stone; terrific..

Alcyonaria :: Alcyonaria (n. pl.) One of the orders of Anthozoa. It includes the Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, and Gorgonacea..

Gorgon :: Gorgon (n.) Anything very ugly or horrid.

Demogorgon :: Demogorgon (n.) A mysterious, terrible, and evil divinity, regarded by some as the author of creation, by others as a great magician who was supposed to command the spirits of the lower world. See Gorgon..

Gorgonia :: Gorgonia (n.) A genus of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum), sea plume (G. setosa), and other allied species having a flexible, horny axis..

Sea Feather :: Sea feather () Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form.

Stem :: Stem (n.) The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian..

Gorgoneion :: Gorgoneion (n.) A mask carved in imitation of a Gorgon's head.

Gorgon :: Gorgon (n.) The brindled gnu. See Gnu.

Gorgonian :: Gorgonian (a.) Pertaining to the Gorgoniacea; as, gorgonian coral..

Zoophyte :: Zoophyte (v. i.) Any one of numerous species of invertebrate animals which more or less resemble plants in appearance, or mode of growth, as the corals, gorgonians, sea anemones, hydroids, bryozoans, sponges, etc., especially any of those that form compound colonies having a branched or treelike form, as many corals and hydroids..

Gorgonize :: Gorgonize (v. t.) To have the effect of a Gorgon upon; to turn into stone; to petrify.

Keratophyte :: Keratophyte (n.) A gorgonian coral having a horny axis.

Isis :: Isis (n.) Any coral of the genus Isis, or family Isidae, composed of joints of white, stony coral, alternating with flexible, horny joints. See Gorgoniacea..

Gorgon :: Gorgon (a.) Like a Gorgon; very ugly or terrific; as, a Gorgon face..

Medusa :: Medusa (n.) The Gorgon; or one of the Gorgons whose hair was changed into serpents, after which all who looked upon her were turned into stone..

Sea Whip :: Sea whip () A gorgonian having a simple stem.

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