GORGONIAN


Meaning of GORGONIAN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ gȯr-ˈgō-nē-ən ]

noun

Etymology: New Latin Gorgonia, a coral genus, from Latin, coral, from Gorgon-, Gorgo

Date: 1835

: any of an order (Gorgonacea) of colonial anthozoans with a usually horny and branching axial skeleton

• gorgonian adjective

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