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Gorgonian   Listen
adjective
Gorgonian  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a Gorgon; terrifying into stone; terrific. "The rest his look Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move."
2.
(Zool.) Pertaining to the Gorgoniacea; as, gorgonian coral.





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"Gorgonian" Quotes from Famous Books



... Pale sot of the Maldive sea, The sleek little pilot-fish, azure and slim, How alert in attendance be. From his saw-pit of mouth, from his charnel of maw They have nothing of harm to dread, But liquidly glide on his ghastly flank Or before his Gorgonian head: Or lurk in the port of serrated teeth In white triple tiers of glittering gates, And there find a haven when peril's abroad, An asylum in jaws of the Fates! They are friends; and friendly they guide him to prey, Yet never partake of the ...
— John Marr and Other Poems • Herman Melville
... around her shoulders she then threw the fringed aegis, dreadful, around which on all sides Terror appears plumed. Thereon was Strife, thereon Fortitude, and thereon was chilling Pursuit;[228] on it was the Gorgonian head of the dreadful monster, dire, horrible, a portent of aegis-bearing Jove. On her head she placed her four-crested helmet, with a spreading metal ridge,[229] golden, sufficient for the heavy-armed of a hundred cities. She then stepped into ...
— The Iliad of Homer (1873) • Homer


Words linked to "Gorgonian" :   red coral, sea fan, coral, suborder Gorgonacea


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