medusa

Transferative use of Medusa.

medusa (plural medusas or medusae or medusæ)

1. A jellyfish; specifically (zoology), a non-polyp form of individual cnidarians, consisting of a gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles. [from 18th c.]
   • 2014, Theo Tait, ‘Water-Borne Zombies’, London Review of Books, vol. 36 no. 5:

     Typically, what we think of as the jellyfish, the medusa, reproduces sexually, spawning sperm and eggs which, once fertilised, turn into sea anemone-like polyps, which attach themselves to the jellyfish’s bottom or other surfaces.

• (non-polyp form of cnidarian): jelly, jellyfish

• medusafish
• medusal
• medusoid

• jellyfish

• Medusa (biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Jellyfish on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• amused, sea mud

medusa f (plural medusas)

1. jellyfish, medusa

• IPA^(key): /meˈduza/

medusa f (plural meduse)

1. (animals) A jellyfish.

• meduseo

• desuma

medusa f (plural medusas)

1. (zoology) medusa (non-polyp form of a cnidarian)

From Medusa.

• IPA^(key): /meˈdusa/, [meˈðusa]

medusa f (plural medusas)

1. jellyfish

   Synonyms: aguamala, aguamar, aguaviva

• “medusa” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.