medusa

[mi'dju:zə]

n. 水母
Medusa
n. 美杜莎(古希腊神话中3位蛇发女怪之一)

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名词复数: medusas |

英英释义

名词 medusa:

(Greek mythology) a woman transformed into a Gorgon by Athena; she was slain by Perseus

any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans

同义词：jellyfish, medusan

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

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