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Medusa's head
Also, when used attrib., Medusa head.
1. Astr. A cluster of stars including the bright star Algol, in the constellation Perseus.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Algol, or Medusa's Head. 1819J. Wilson Dict. Astrol.
2. a. An ophiuran echinoderm of either of the genera Astrophyton and Euryale; a basket-fish or sea-basket. b. An extant crinoid, Pentacrinus caput-medusæ.
1784Cook's Voy. (1790) IV. 1292 Upon the beach were found many pretty Medusa's-heads. 1848Maunder Treas. Nat. Hist. 414 Medusa's Head, a name sometimes applied to those species of Star-fishes which have the rays very much branched. Ibid. 225 [Euryale] sometimes known by the name of Medusa's heads. 1863Wood Nat. Hist. III. 738 Medusa's Head—Pentacrinus Caput Medusæ.
3. a. A kind of spurge, Euphorbia Caput-Medusæ. b. A species of orchid, Cirrhopetalum Medusæ. c. A species of agaric, Hydnum Caput-Medusæ.
1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 319 Medusa's Head, Euphorbia. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 181 The bulbous agaric, the Medusa's head [etc.]. 1866Treas. Bot. 728/1 Medusa's Head. Euphorbia Caput Medusæ; also Cirrhopetalum Medusæ. 1871Cooke Handbk. Fungi 297 Hydnum caput-medusæ Bull. Medusa-head Hydnum. |