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Gorgon :: Gorgon (n.) One of three fabled sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, with snaky hair and of terrific aspect, the sight of whom turned the beholder to stone. The name is particularly given to Medusa..

Hydromedusa :: Hydromedusa (n.) Any medusa or jellyfish which is produced by budding from a hydroid. They are called also Craspedota, and naked-eyed medusae..

Gymnophthalmata :: Gymnophthalmata (n. pl.) A group of acalephs, including the naked-eyed medusae; the hydromedusae. Most of them are known to be the free-swimming progeny (gonophores) of hydroids..

Rhizostomata :: Rhizostomata (n. pl.) A suborder of Medusae which includes very large species without marginal tentacles, but having large mouth lobes closely united at the edges. See Illust. in Appendix..

Sea Jelly :: Sea jelly () A medusa, or jellyfish..

Velum :: Velum (n.) The circular membrane that partially incloses the space beneath the umbrella of hydroid medusae.

Acalephae :: Acalephae (n. pl.) A group of Coelenterata, including the Medusae or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles..

Sea Nettle :: Sea nettle () A jellyfish, or medusa..

Meconidium :: Meconidium (n.) A kind of gonophore produced by hydroids of the genus Gonothyraea. It has tentacles, and otherwise resembles a free medusa, but remains attached by a pedicel..

Polypite :: Polypite (n.) Sometimes, the manubrium of a hydroid medusa..

Ephyra :: Ephyra (n.) A stage in the development of discophorous medusae, when they first begin to swim about after being detached from the strobila. See Strobila..

Craspedota :: Craspedota (n. pl.) The hydroid or naked-eyed medusae. See Hydroidea.

Medusoid :: Medusoid (a.) Like a medusa; having the fundamental structure of a medusa, but without a locomotive disk; -- said of the sessile gonophores of hydroids..

Polypomedusae :: Polypomedusae (n. pl.) Same as Hydrozoa.

Strobila :: Strobila (n.) A form of the larva of certain Discophora in a state of development succeeding the scyphistoma. The body of the strobila becomes elongated, and subdivides transversely into a series of lobate segments which eventually become ephyrae, or young medusae..

Hydranth :: Hydranth (n.) One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See Illust. of Hydroidea.

Gonophore :: Gonophore (n.) A sexual zooid produced as a medusoid bud upon a hydroid, sometimes becoming a free hydromedusa, sometimes remaining attached. See Hydroidea, and Illusts. of Athecata, Campanularian, and Gonosome..

Semaeostomata :: Semaeostomata (n. pl.) A division of Discophora having large free mouth lobes. It includes Aurelia, and Pelagia. Called also Semeostoma. See Illustr. under Discophora, and Medusa..

Medusa :: Medusa (n.) Any free swimming acaleph; a jellyfish.

Blubber :: Blubber (n.) A large sea nettle or medusa.

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