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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles;
[syn: medusa, medusoid, medusan]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. relating to or resembling a medusa;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Medusoid \Me*du"soid\, a. [Medusa + -oid.] (Zool.) Like a medusa; having the fundamental structure of a medusa, but without a locomotive disk; -- said of the sessile gonophores of hydroids. -- n. A sessile gonophore. See Illust. under Gonosome. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

medusoid adj 1: relating to or resembling a medusa n 1: one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free- swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles [syn: medusa, medusoid, medusan]