GORGONIA

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A genus of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum), sea plume (G. setosa), and other allied species having a flexible, horny axis.

2.
n.

Any slender branched gorgonian.