Me*du"soid (?), a. [Medusa + -oid.] Zool.

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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n.

A sessile gonophore. See Illust. under Gonosome.

 

© Webster 1913.

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