Definition of gorgon

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Gorgon (n.) Anything very ugly or horrid.

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Sclerobase :: Sclerobase (n.) The calcareous or hornlike coral forming the central stem or axis of most compound alcyonarians; -- called also foot secretion. See Illust. under Gorgoniacea, and Coenenchyma..
Gorgonean :: Gorgonean (a.) See Gorgonian, 1..
Gorgon :: Gorgon (n.) The brindled gnu. See Gnu.
Corticifer :: Corticifer (n.) One of the Gorgoniacea; -- so called because the fleshy part surrounds a solid axis, like a bark..
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..
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..
Pinnule :: Pinnule (n.) Any one of a series of small, slender organs, or parts, when arranged in rows so as to have a plumelike appearance; as, a pinnule of a gorgonia; the pinnules of a crinoid..
Stem :: Stem (n.) The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian..
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 Fan :: Sea fan () Any gorgonian which branches in a fanlike form, especially Gorgonia flabellum of Florida and the West Indies..
Sea Fern :: Sea fern () Any gorgonian which branches like a fern.
Gorgonian :: Gorgonian (n.) One of the Gorgoniacea.
Gorgonia :: Gorgonia (n.) Any slender branched gorgonian.
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..
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..
Gorgoniacea :: Gorgoniacea (n. pl.) One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or c/nenchyma, in which the polyp cells are situated..
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..
Perseus :: Perseus (n.) A Grecian legendary hero, son of Jupiter and Danae, who slew the Gorgon Medusa..
Gorgoneia :: Gorgoneia (pl. ) of Gorgoneio.
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