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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hydrozoan in the medusoid stage of its life cycle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
hydromedusan . - noun [capitalized] A genus of reptiles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any medusa or jellyfish which is produced by budding from a hydroid. They are called also
Craspedota , andnaked-eyed medusæ .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
South American snake-neckedturtle .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[hydro– + medusa.]
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