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{i} medusa
(Mitoloji) Phorkos'un kızları olan üç Gorgon'dan en kötüsüdür. Saçları yılan gibidir. Ve ona bakan taşa dönüşürdü
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: The only mortal of the three gorgon sisters. She is killed by Perseus. (Read more at Wikipedia)
a. Jellyfish. b. The free-swimming stage of the Cnidarian life-cycle
a. The mortal one of the three Gorgons. b. Gorgon. c. One with the attributes of a Gorgon; a terrifying or ugly woman
in ancient Greek mythology, a woman who had snakes instead of hair and turned everyone who looked at her into stone. She was killed by Perseus, who used his shiny shield (=a metal object carried by soldiers to protect themselves) as a mirror so that he did not have to look at her directly, and cut off her head. In Greek mythology, the most famous of the monsters known as Gorgons. Anyone who looked directly at Medusa turned to stone. She was the only Gorgon who was mortal. The hero Perseus, looking only at her reflection in a shield given to him by Athena, killed her by cutting off her head. Perseus later gave the severed head to Athena, who placed it in her shield; according to another account, he buried it in the marketplace of Argos. In zoology, one of the two principal cnidarian body forms; the typical form of the jellyfish. Its name derives from its tentacles, resembling the snakes borne by Medusa in place of hair. The medusoid body is bell-or umbrella-shaped. Hanging downward from the center is a stalklike structure, the manubrium, bearing the mouth at its tip. The mouth opens into the main body cavity, which connects with radial canals extending to the outer rim of the bell. A free-swimming form, the medusa moves by rhythmic muscular contractions of the bell, providing a slow propulsive action against the water. The other principal cnidarian body type is the polyp
{i} (in Greek Mythology) one of the three Gorgons that had snakes for hair and everyone who looked at them was turned to stone
The only mortal of the three Gorgon sisters. She is killed by Perseus
{i} marine animal in the shape of a jellyfish that has long thin stinging appendages
| motionless | nostril | organs | polyp | poison | powerful |
Chief of the Gorgons Her head was cut off by Perseus (2 syl ), and Minerva placed it in her aegis Everyone who looked on this head was instantly changed into stone The tale is that Medusa, famous for her hair, presumed to set her beauty above that of Minerva; so the jealous goddess converted her rival's hair into snakes, which changed to stone anyone who looked thereon The most famous painting of Medusa is by Leonardo da Vinci; it is called his chef d'oeuvre
any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans
one of two forms that coelenterates take: is the free-swimming sexual stage in the life cycle of a coelenterate and has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles
(Greek mythology) a woman transformed into a Gorgon by Athena; she was slain by Perseus
(meh-DOO-suh) Gorgon slain by Perseus
Any free swimming acaleph; a jellyfish
The Gorgon; or one of the Gorgons whose hair was changed into serpents, after which all who looked upon her were turned into stone
The umbrella-shaped type of jelly
The free swimming stage of the cnidarian life cycle

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Medusa
medusa

    Hyphenation

    me·du·sa

    Turkish pronunciation

    mıdusı

    Pronunciation

    /məˈdo͞osə/ /məˈduːsə/

    Etymology

    [ mi-'dü-s&, -'dyü ] (noun.) From Ancient Greek Μέδουσα (Medousa).
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