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One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or c

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

To have the effect of a Gorgon upon; to turn into stone; to petrify. [R.]

A kind of Italian pressed milk cheese; -- so called from a village near Milan.

The petrified fruit of the Chara hispida, a species of stonewort. See Stonewort. Lyell.

A grappling iron. [Obs.]

A plane figure of eleven sides and eleven angles. [Written also endecagon.]

A plane figure consisting of seven sides and having seven angles.

Having seven angles or sides. Heptagonal numbers (Arith.), the numbers of the series 1, 7, 18, 34, 55, etc., being figurate numbers formed by adding successively the terms of the arithmetical series 1, 6, 11, 16, 21, etc.

Characterized by heterogony. -- Het`er*og"o*nous*ly, adv.

The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers, different as to the length of their stamens and pistils.

A plane figure of six angles. Regular hexagon, a hexagon in which the angles are all equal, and the sides are also all equal.

Having six sides and six angles; six-sided. Hexagonal system. (Crystal.) See under Crystallization.

In an hexagonal manner.

A hexagon. [Obs.] Bramhall.

Having all the flowers of a plant alike in respect to the stamens and pistils.

The condition of having homogonous flowers.

See Homologue.

A chain of small cells in certain algæ, by which the plant is propogated.

A figure or polygon whose angles are equal.