MEDUSA Synonyms
There are 3 hypernyms of the word medusa. (close relations)
Best Synonyms for MEDUSA
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| gorgon | nounn | |||||
noun • (Greek mythology) any of three winged sister monsters and the mortal Medusa who had live snakes for hair; a glance at Medusa turned the beholder to stone | ||||||
| monster | nounn | |||||
noun • an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts • someone that is abnormally large and powerful • a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed • a cruel wicked and inhuman person • (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus | ||||||
| myth | nounn | |||||
noun • a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people | ||||||
| serpent | nounn | |||||
noun • limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous • a firework that moves in serpentine manner when ignited • an obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake | ||||||
| snake | verb, nounv, n | |||||
noun • limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous • a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition • a long faint constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer • a deceitful or treacherous person • something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake • a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes verb • move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake • form a snake-like pattern • move along a winding path | ||||||
| jelly | verb, nounv, n | |||||
noun • an edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods • a preserve made of the jelled juice of fruit • any substance having the consistency of jelly or gelatin verb • make into jelly | ||||||
| jellyfish | nounn | |||||
noun • large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles • any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans | ||||||
| medusan | noun, adjectiven, adj | |||||
noun • 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 | ||||||
| medusoid | noun, adjectiven, adj | |||||
adjective • relating to or resembling a medusa noun • 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 | ||||||