GORGONIAN

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a Gorgon; terrifying into stone; terrific. The rest his look Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move. Milton.

2.
a.

Pertaining to the Gorgoniacea; as, gorgonian coral.

3.
n.

One of the Gorgoniacea.


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