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Like a medusa; having the fundamental structure of a medusa, but without a locomotive disk; -- said of the sessile gonophores of hydroids.

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  1. a. Like a medusa; having the fundamental structure of a medusa, but without a locomotive disk; -- said of the sessile gonophores of hydroids.
  2. n. A sessile gonophore. See Illust. under Gonosome.
  3. adj. relating to or resembling a medusa
  4. n. 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
  5. Like a medusa; having the fundamental structure of a medusa, but without a locomotive disk; -- said of the sessile gonophores of hydroids. -- n. A sessile gonophore. See Illust. under Gonosome.
  6. Like a medusa; having the fundamental structure of a medusa,but without a locomotive disk; -- said of the sessile gonophores ofhydroids.-- n.
  7. n 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 a relating to or resembling a medusa