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Definition of Medusan

1. 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.

Definition of Medusan

1. medusa [n -S] - See also: medusa

Lexicographical Neighbors of Medusan

Literary usage of Medusan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1856)
"Still more astonished at the assertion that a Zoophyte ever produces a medusan embryo,—the fact having been established beyond all question that the Medusa ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... a form inhabiting fresh or brackish water. Turns produces free medusae. Amphi- nema is a medusan genus of unknown hydroid. а. ..."

3. The Microscope: And Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1856)
"... whose medusan structure is less distinctly pronounced, do not completely detach themselves, but expand cue after another at the mouth of the capsule, ..."

4. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"This developmental history may be modified in two ways: either the polypoid or the medusan generation may be suppressed. In the first case we have polyps ..."

5. Animal Physiology by William Benjamin Carpenter (1859)
"... propagates its kind by the formation of polype-buds, which detach themselves and lead independent lives ; and thus from a single medusan egg there may ..."

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