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gorgon |
gorgonacea |
gorgonean |
gorgoneion |
gorgonia |
gorgoniacea
| gorgonian
| gorgonian coral
| gorgonize
| gorgonocephalus
| gorgonzola
gorgoniacea
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun gorgoniacea has 1 sense
- gorgoniacea(n = noun.animal) gorgonacea, suborder gorgonacea, suborder gorgoniacea - red corals and sea fans; Array is a kind of animal order
is a member of alcyonaria, order alcyonaria
CIDE DICTIONARY
gorgoniacea, n. pl. [NL. See Gorgonia.].
One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or c1913 Webster]
" The axis is commonly horny, but it may be solid and stony (composed of calcium carbonate), as in the red coral of commerce, or it may be in alternating horny and stony joints, as in Isis. See Alcyonaria , Anthozoa , C. "
[1913 Webster]
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