1.
[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]