medusa

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The body of the medusa was transparent.

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  1. noun The tentacled, usually bell-shaped, free-swimming sexual stage in the life cycle of a coelenterate, such as a jellyfish.

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  • It did not resemble a tree at all, but a jellyfish, a medusa, such as might be met trailing its tentacles as it drifted along the warm eddies of the Gulf Stream This medusa was more than a mile across and its scores of dangling entacles were hundreds of feet long. —  A Meeting with Medusa
  • But now it was obvious that the medusa was in distress. —  A Meeting with Medusa
  • And the medusa, longer falling, began to roll back toward the horizontal. —  A Meeting with Medusa
  • But he had sideslipped during his descent, and part of the medusa was just visible a couple of miles above him. —  A Meeting with Medusa
  • Then, to his great relief, he saw that the medusa was levelling off, not quite a mile above him. —  A Meeting with Medusa
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  1. Latin Medūsa, Medusa (from the Medusa's snaky locks); see Medusa.
 

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